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Pleasure is the carrot dangled to lead the ass to market; or the precipice.
— Robinson Jeffers
Tags: market, carrot, lead, pleasure

Other Quotes by "Robinson Jeffers"

Imagination, the traitor of the mind, has taken my solitude and slain it.
— Robinson Jeffers
Tags: traitor, solitude, mind, imagination
He is strong and pain is worse to the strong, incapacity is worse.
— Robinson Jeffers
Tags: worse, he, strong, pain
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
Tags: relationships, life, behavior
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
Tags: riches, men, life-lessons, experience
I've changed my ways a little, I cannot now Run with you in the evenings along the shore, Except in a kind of dream, and you, if you dream a moment, You see me there.
— Robinson Jeffers
Tags: time, passage, memory, dream, dogs, death
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