Robinson Jeffers Fragments of an Older Fury Quotes

“Fascism is an attempt to forge a bond between an historical sacral culture with its roots in the past, and an emergent pluralist mentality not yet thoroughly formalized in a living tradition.”
― William Everson, Robinson Jeffers Fragments of an Older Fury

“The anthropocentric version of the God of Christianity will not avail. . . . Instead emerges a new hero, a new messiah, a new superman. He will seek to weld all together in a terrible act of unbelievable affirmation beyond the limits of common human desire, beyond common hope. He will free himself through the ancient acts of violation — fornication, incest, rape. . . . His name is the Rev. Dr. Arthur Barclay.”
― William Everson, Robinson Jeffers Fragments of an Older Fury

“The myth disregards — does not know — the individual.”
― William Everson, Robinson Jeffers Fragments of an Older Fury

“Then all meaning was in the group . . . today . . . all is in the individual.”
― William Everson, Robinson Jeffers Fragments of an Older Fury

“Heinrich Zimmer: 'Myth is the sole and spontaneous image of life itself in its flowing harmony and mutually hostile contrarieties, in all the polyphony and harmony of their contradictions.”
― William Everson, Robinson Jeffers Fragments of an Older Fury

“Nietzsche: 'myth itself is a kind or style of thinking. It imparts an idea of the universe, but does it in the sequence of events, actions, sufferings.”
― William Everson, Robinson Jeffers Fragments of an Older Fury

“For the mind of every man is balanced upon the creative tension within him of conceptual mediation between the opposed polarities of the finite and the infinite, the essential and the existential. the exact equation between them is responsible for the basic human types, which, in aesthetics, constitute the classical and the romantic temperaments.”
― William Everson, Robinson Jeffers Fragments of an Older Fury