I wish the little rivers under the laughing kingfishers in … - Robinson Jeffers

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I wish the little rivers under the laughing kingfishers in every canyon were fire, and the ocean
Fire, and my heart not afraid to go down.

Robinson Jeffers

The Wild God of the World: An Anthology of Robinson Jeffers · January 23, 2003 Verified in 1 source Sign up to see the complete provenance

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John Robinson Jeffers (10 January 1887 – 20 January 1962) was an American poet, whose poetry often presented monist perspectives, transcending personal and particular concerns of human beings, which he eventually labelled as stances of a naturalistic "inhumanism" that he believed was necessary to transcend and diminish many forms of social strife and corruption.

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I wish the little rivers under the laughing kingfishers in every canyon were fire, and the ocean Fire, and my heart not afraid to go down. - Robinson Jeffers

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