Friday, September 30, 2022

Too Much Joy

Robinson Jeffers, from The Tower Beyond Tragedy:

        Too much joy is a message-bearer of misery.
        A little is good; but come too much and it devours us. Therefore we give of a great harvest
        Sheaves to the smiling Gods; and therefore out of a full cup we pour the quarter. No man
        Dare take all that God sends him, whom God favors, or destruction
        Rides into the house in the last basket.


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