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Robinson Jeffers is known for singing the beauty of God and things. But if rarely, he sings the beauty of human beings, as a part of God and things. He advises us to enter our soul’s desert and look for God. Our soul’s desert has timeless peace embodying the depth of night, heaven’s heaven. Even though it was created relatively recent, human race, a microcosm, contains all things of the universe including the earth, full of God. But the night in our soul seems to diminish and it is hard to enter the desert of our soul because of the products of human ego-conscious inwardness which is the result of recent human evolution. So our passionately perceptive identity with other things in the universe diminishes and peace seems to be accomplished only through death. But still if we uncenter our minds from ourselves, unhumanize our views a little, and return to our soul’s desert in solitude and touch our soul’s diamond to the diamond of the hard beauty of God and things, detaching from negative products of our inwardness, we can find not only the beauty of God and all things, but also the beauty of human beings including peace which all things have. In the same hard beauty, we can ascertain our identity with other things again. What Jeffers does in most poems is to admire the beauty of God and things from the hardness of his own soul.