The MarginalianHow to Be a Stone: Three Poems for Trusting Time
https://fed.brid.gy/r/https://www.themarginalian.org/2026/03/08/stone-time/
LoC Appreciation SocietyThe Wilton Playshop presents Euripides' Medea [1963].
1 print : color ; sheet 49 x 31 cm (poster format)
#WiltonPlayshop #Euripides #TheWiltonPlayshop #MEDEA #RobinsonJeffers #FerdManning #MrsWSeitzPO #posters #american #photopgraphy #LibraryOfCongress
Guillaume le RougeTime to get the fuck out of the big cities and build small town and rural bases outside of the nascent techofeudal dystopia.
But for my children, I would have them keep their distance from the thickening center;
corruption
Never has been compulsory, when the cities lie at the monster's feet there are left the mountains
- Robinson Jeffers
https://theanarchistlibrary.org/library/ralph-borsodi-this-ugly-civilization
#ralphborsodi #agrarianism #degrowth #decentralization #lowtech #robinsonjeffers #cyberpunk #dystopia #selfreliance
katrintheresa“The old voice of the ocean, the bird-chatter of little rivers,
(Winter has given them gold for silver
To stain their water and bladed green for brown to line their banks)
From different throats intone one language.
So I believe if we were strong enough to listen without
Divisions of desire and terror
To the storm of the sick nations, the rage of the hunger smitten cities,
Those voices also would be found…”
#RobinsonJeffers https://allpoetry.com/Natural-Music
(Winter has given them gold for silver
To stain their water and bladed green for brown to line their banks)
From different throats intone one language.
So I believe if we were strong enough to listen without
Divisions of desire and terror
To the storm of the sick nations, the rage of the hunger smitten cities,
Those voices also would be found…”
#RobinsonJeffers https://allpoetry.com/Natural-Music
"Then what is the answer? — Not to be deluded by dreams.
To know that great civilizations have broken down into violence, and their tyrants come, many times before.
When open violence appears, to avoid it with honor or choose the least ugly faction; these evils are essential.
To keep one's own integrity, be merciful and uncorrupted and not wish for evil; and not be duped
By dreams of universal justice or happiness. These dreams will not be fulfilled."
Wisdom in SpaceThe whole human race spends too much emotion on itself. The happiest and freest man is the scientist investigating nature or the artist admiring it, the person who is interested in things that are not human. Or if he is interested in human beings, let him regard them objectively as a small part of the great music.
-- Robinson Jeffers
bs2> That public men publish falsehoods
Is nothing new. That America must accept
Like the historical republics corruption and empire
Has been known for years.
> Be angry at the sun for setting
If these things anger you...
> Let boys want pleasure, and men
Struggle for power, and women perhaps for fame,
And the servile to serve a Leader and the dupes to be duped.
Yours is not theirs.
https://allpoetry.com/Be-Angry-At-The-Sun
#LeslieRoberts in #BlameTheSun about #ThinkTank got me re-reading a #RobinsonJeffers poem.
Is nothing new. That America must accept
Like the historical republics corruption and empire
Has been known for years.
> Be angry at the sun for setting
If these things anger you...
> Let boys want pleasure, and men
Struggle for power, and women perhaps for fame,
And the servile to serve a Leader and the dupes to be duped.
Yours is not theirs.
https://allpoetry.com/Be-Angry-At-The-Sun
#LeslieRoberts in #BlameTheSun about #ThinkTank got me re-reading a #RobinsonJeffers poem.
The whole human race spends too much emotion on itself. The happiest and freest man is the scientist investigating nature or the artist admiring it, the person who is interested in things that are not human. Or if he is interested in human beings, let him regard them objectively as a small part of the great music.
-- Robinson Jeffers
⬆ #Quotes #RobinsonJeffers #Happiness #Nature
⬇ #Photography #Panorama #Panopainting #Seashells #Everglades #Florida
Vivian
An old anthology, _Toward Liberal Education_ or _Understanding Poetry_ got me into #RobinsonJeffers. Some lines stick in your mind, "corruption never has been compulsory" or make you think of Buddhism quotes...
> I sadly smiling remember that the flower fades to make fruit, the
fruit rots to make earth. Out of the mother; and through the spring exultances, ripeness
and decadence; and home to the mother.
You making haste haste on decay: not blameworthy; life is good,...
