5 Robinson Jeffers Quotes on Death

Robinson Jeffers quotes on death

4. Happy people die whole, they are all dissolved in a moment, they have had what they wanted

5. 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.

12. There is no reason for amazement: surely one always knew that cultures decay, and life's end is death.

16. I sadly smiling remember that the flower fades to make fruit, the fruit rots to make earth.

30. 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...