Rolf Jacobsen Quotes

#1. 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

#2. For the Earth itself is a blossom, she says,
on the star tree,
pale with luminous
ocean leaves.

Rolf Jacobsen

#3. 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

#4. 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

#5. 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

#6. 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