Robinson Jeffers Quotes on Death
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Happy people die whole, they are all dissolved in a moment, they have had what they wanted
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Stone-cutters fighting time with marble, you fore-defeated Challengers of oblivion Eat cynical earnings, knowing rock splits, records fall down, The square-limbed Roman letters Scale in the thaws, wear in the rain.
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There is no reason for amazement: surely one always knew that cultures decay, and life's end is death.
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I sadly smiling remember that the flower fades to make fruit, the fruit rots to make earth.
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When the sun shouts and people abound One thinks there were the ages of stone and the age of bronze And the iron age; iron the unstable metal; Steel made of iron, unstable as his mother; the towered-up cities Will be stains of rust on mounds of plaster. Roots will not pierce the heaps for a time, kind rains will cure them, Then nothing will remain of the iron age And all these people but a thigh-bone or so, a poem Stuck in the world's thought, splinters of glass In the rubbish dumps, a concrete dam far off in the mountain...