Robinson Jeffers

Cruelty is a part of nature at least of human nature but it is the one thing that seems unnatural to us.

The love of freedom has been the quality of Western man.

It is only a little planet, but how beautiful it is.

Pleasure is the carrot dangled to lead the ass to market; or the precipice.

Cruelty is a part of nature, at least of human nature, but it is the one thing that seems unnatural to us.

Corruption never has been compulsory when the cities lie at the monsters feet there are left the mountains.

It is cruelty to the innocent not to punish the guilty.

The tides are in our veins.

Imagination, the traitor of the mind, has taken my solitude and slain it.

He is strong and pain is worse to the strong, incapacity is worse.