Robinson Jeffers on Anniversary
1887–1962 United States
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At least Love your eyes that can see, your mind that can
Hear the music, the thunder of the wings. Love the wild swan.
Love the Wild Swan (1935)
Love that, not man
Apart from that, or else you will share man's pitiful confusions,
or drown in despair when his days darken.
The Answer (1936)
Against the outcrop boulders of a raised beach
We built our house when I and my love were young.
I think it is our privilege and felicity to love God for his beauty, without claiming or expecting love from him.
Look for foundations of sea-worn granite, my fingers had the art
To make stone love stone, you will find some remnant.
This whole is in all its parts so beautiful, and is felt by me to be so intensely in earnest, that I am compelled to love it and to think of it as divine.