<span lang="he" dir="rtl">אם אין אני לי, מי לי? וכשאני לעצמי, מה אני? ואם לא עכשיו, אימתי?</span>
If I am not for myself, then who will be for me? But when I am for myself, then what am "I"? And if not now, when?
1:14
Pirkei Avot
<span lang="he" dir="rtl">אם אין אני לי, מי לי? וכשאני לעצמי, מה אני? ואם לא עכשיו, אימתי?</span><!--also: אם אין אני לי מי לי וכשאני לעצמי מה אני ואם לא עכשיו אימתי-->
Source: The Broadside Tapes 1 (made in the 1960s; published c. 1980), Liner notes
“Any number of lies will serve a rich and evil man.”
The Evil Liar.
“The final story, the final chapter of Western man, I believe, lies in Los Angeles.”
Source: The Broadside Tapes 1 (made in the 1960s; published c. 1980), Liner notes
Book 1, Proposition 13.
On the Equilibrium of Planes
Act 5, sc. 3
Dirty Hands (1948)
“I decided not to tell lies in verse. Not to feign any emotions that I did not feel.”
The Selected Poems of Robinson Jeffers, Stanford University Press (2001) ISBN 978-0804738903
“If any question why we died,
Tell them, because our fathers lied.”
Common Form
Epitaphs of the War (1914-1918) (1918)
Book 1, Proposition 9.
On the Equilibrium of Planes
