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“Robinson Jeffers longed throughout his life ]for a poetry of 'pure undoubtable being'], but could not bear to relinquish his moral connection with the humanity he continually condemned for its self-centeredness.”
― Nine Gates: Entering the Mind of Poetry
― Nine Gates: Entering the Mind of Poetry
“even here, even at the beginning of love,
her hand leaving his face makes
an image of departure
and they think
they are free to overlook
this sadness.”
― The Wild Iris
her hand leaving his face makes
an image of departure
and they think
they are free to overlook
this sadness.”
― The Wild Iris
“I know that nothing has ever been real
without my beholding it.
All becoming has needed me.
My looking ripens things
― Rainer Maria Rilke, Rilke’s Book of Hours: Love Poems to God”
― Rilke's Book of Hours: Love Poems to God
without my beholding it.
All becoming has needed me.
My looking ripens things
― Rainer Maria Rilke, Rilke’s Book of Hours: Love Poems to God”
― Rilke's Book of Hours: Love Poems to God
“We are nothing but lies, duplicity, contradiction, and we hide and disguise ourselves from ourselves.”
― Pensées
― Pensées
“Yūgen's hallmarks [are] mystery and depth .. . . it is characterized by sadness, unspoken connotations, imagery of a veiled, monochromatic nature, and an atmosphere of haunting beauty.”
― Nine Gates: Entering the Mind of Poetry
― Nine Gates: Entering the Mind of Poetry
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