Robinson Jeffers, The Selected Poetry

"We have to live like people in a web of knives, we mustn't reach out our hands or we get them gashed."

Robinson Jeffers, The Selected Poetry

"I learned that ruling poor men's hands is nothing. Ruling men's money's a wedge in the world. But after I'd split it open a crack I looked in and saw the trick inside it, the filthy nothing, the fooled and rotten faces of rich and successful men."

Robinson Jeffers, The Selected Poetry

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

Robinson Jeffers, The Selected Poetry