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Rolf Jacobsen Quotes

If you go far enough out you can see the Universe itself, all the billion light years summed up time only as a flash, just as lonely, as distant as a star on a June night if you go far enough out. And still, my friend,

If you go far enough out you can see the Universe itself, all the billion light years summed up time only as a flash, just as lonely, as distant as a star on a June night if you go far enough out. And still, my friend, if you go far enough out you are only at the beginning - of yourself.

Rolf Jacobsen
Lonely, Time, Stars

Let the young rain of tears come, let the calm hands of grief come. It's not all as evil as you think.

Rolf Jacobsen
Grief, Rain, Thinking
Rolf Jacobsen (2001). “The Roads Have Come to an End Now: Selected and Last Poems of Rolf Jacobsen”, p.17, Copper Canyon Press

Look - The moon thumbs through night's book. Finds a lake where nothing is printed. Draws a straight line. That's all it can. That's enough. Thick line. Straight toward you. - Look.

Rolf Jacobsen
Book, Moon, Night

The clouds roll on. Silent as sleepwalkers the clouds keep coming from infinity bank behind bank and line after line, and change colors on the earth.

Rolf Jacobsen
Nature, Travel, Clouds
Rolf Jacobsen, Roger Greenwald (2002). “North in the World: Selected Poems of Rolf Jacobsen, A Bilingual Edition”, p.9, University of Chicago Press

Sssh says the ocean Sssh says the small wave at the shore sssh not so violent, not so proud, not so remarkable. Sssh says the surf crowding around the outcrops, washing the shore. Sssh, they say to people, this is our Earth, our eternity.

Rolf Jacobsen
Ocean, People, Earth

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