<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=509054" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>Self-Criticism In February</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">The bay is not blue but sombre yellow<br>With wrack from the battered valley, it is speckled with violent<br>foam-heads<br>And tiger-striped with long lovely storm-shadows.<br>You love this better than the other mask; better eyes than yours<br>Would feel the equal beauty in the blue.<br>It is certain you have loved the beauty of storm disproportionately.<br>But the present time is not pastoral, but founded<br>On violence, pointed for more massive violence: perhaps it is not<br>Perversity but need that perceives the storm-beauty.<br>Well, bite on this: your poems are too full of ghosts and demons,<br>And people like phantoms how often life's are<br>And passion so strained that the clay mouths go praying for destruction<br>Alas, it is not unusual in life;<br>To every soul at some time. But 'why insist on it? And now<br>For the worst fault: you have never mistaken<br>Demon nor passion nor idealism for the real God.<br>Then what is most disliked in those verses<br>Remains most true. Unfortunately. If only you could sing<br>That God is love, or perhaps that social<br>Justice will soon prevail. I can tell lies in prose.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Robinson+Jeffers">Robinson Jeffers</a><div class=q> <img src="https://www.citatepedia.ro/g/32share.png" style="float:left" alt="Share"> <script type="text/javascript" src="//s7.addthis.com/js/300/addthis_widget.js#pubid=citatepedia" async="async"></script><div style="display:inline-block" class="addthis_sharing_toolbox" data-url="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=509054" data-title="Self-Criticism In February de Robinson Jeffers" data-description="The bay is not blue but sombre yellow With wrack from the battered valley, it is speckled with violent foam-heads And tiger-striped with long lovely storm-shadows. You love this better than the other mask; better eyes than yours Would feel the equ..."></div> </div> </div>

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