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

    Robinson Jeffers: Poetry is not a civilizer, rather the reverse, for great poetry appeals to the most primitive instincts.
    Robinson Jeffers, Tim Hunt (1988). “The Collected Poetry of Robinson Jeffers: Poetry 1903-1920, prose, and unpublished writings”, p.425, Stanford University Press