“The beauty of things was born before eyes and sufficient to itself; the heart-breaking beauty / Will remain when there is no heart to break for it.”

“Corruption never has been compulsory; when the cities lie at the monster’s feet there are left the …”

— Robinson Jeffers, "Shine, Perishing Republic" (1925)

“Humanity is the mold to break away from, the crust to break through, the coal to break into fire, / …”

— Robinson Jeffers, "Roan Stallion" (1925)

“Hurt Hawks cannot be mended: the wild God has turned / His back on them.”

— Robinson Jeffers, "Hurt Hawks" (1928)

“I believe that the universe is one being, all its parts are different expressions of the same …”

— Robinson Jeffers, Letter to Sister Mary James Power, 1 Oct 1934, collected in The Wild God of the World: An Anthology of Robinson Jeffers

“Integrity is wholeness, the greatest beauty is / Organic wholeness, the wholeness of life and …”

— Robinson Jeffers, "The Answer"

“Long live freedom and damn the ideologies.”

— Robinson Jeffers, "The Stars Go Over the Lonely Ocean" (1940)