Quote by Robinson Jeffers
Seagulls... slim yachts of the element. - Robinson Jeffers

Seagulls… slim yachts of the element. – Robinson Jeffers

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Poetry is not a civilizer, rather the reverse, for great poetry appeals to the most primitive instincts. – Robinson Jeffers

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Poetry
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Cruelty is a part of nature, at least of human nature, but it is the one thing that seems unnatural to us. – Robinson Jeffers

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Nature
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Happier of happy though I be, like them I cannot take possession of the sky, mount with a thoughtless impulse, and wheel there, one of a mighty multitude whose way and motion is a harmony and dance magnificent. – William Wordsworth

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When nature made the blue-bird she wished to propitiate both the sky and the earth, so she gave him the color of the one on his back and the hue of the other on his breast. – John Burroughs

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To a man, ornithologists are tall, slender, and bearded so that they can stand motionless for hours, imitating kindly trees, as they watch for birds. – Gore Vidal

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I value my garden more for being full of blackbirds than of cherries, and very frankly give them fruit for their songs. – Joseph Addison, The Spectator, 1712

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Whoever gossips to you will gossip about you. – Spanish Proverb

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Failures are finger posts on the road to achievement. – C. S. Lewis

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Transformation can only take place immediately; the revolution is now, not tomorrow. – Jiddu Krishnamurti

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You never know when some small thing will lead to a big idea. Travel is very inspirational – but its in the ordinary that I find my themes of love and work and family. – Adriana Trigiani

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