“Happy people die whole, they are all dissolved in a moment,
they have had what they wanted”
"Post Mortem" in The Women at Point Sur (1927)
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Robinson Jeffers 59
American poet 1887–1962Related quotes

“You have absorb'd me. I have a sensation at the present moment as though I was dissolving.”

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(1978). Translated back from Dutch to English, indirectly sourced, Messiahs: The vision and prophecies for the Second coming by John Hogue