“No one would think he'd make such a beautiful corpse.”

Source: City of Bones

Letter to Sister Mary James Power (1 October 1934); published in The Wild God of the World : An Anthology of Robinson Jeffers (2003), edited by Albert Gelpi, p. 189 - 190
Context: I think that one may contribute (ever so slightly) to the beauty of things by making one's own life and environment beautiful, as far as one's power reaches. This includes moral beauty, one of the qualities of humanity, though it seems not to appear elsewhere in the universe. But I would have each person realize that his contribution is not important, its success not really a matter for exultation nor its failure for mourning; the beauty of things is sufficient without him.
(An office of tragic poetry is to show that there is beauty in pain and failure as much as in success and happiness.)

As quoted in Seeds of Peace : A Catalogue of Quotations (1986) edited by Jeanne Larson and Madge Micheels-Cyrus

"Raisin Bread", quoted in 三島由紀夫短編集: Seven Stories, translated by John Bester (2002), p. 21.

Source: Days of Magic, Nights of War

Source: Sylvia cartoon strip, p. 216

Source: Red Seas Under Red Skies (2007), Chapter 13 “Points of Decision” section 2 (p. 587)

Source: The Way of Shadows (2008), Chapter 12 (p. 92)

Starman
Song lyrics, The Rise and Fall of Ziggy Stardust and the Spiders from Mars (1972)