Edwin Arlington Robinson famous quotes

Life is the game that must be played.
-- Edwin Arlington Robinson

#Live Life #Games #Life Is

Two kinds of gratitude: The sudden kind we feel for what we take; the larger kind we feel for what we give.
-- Edwin Arlington Robinson

#Thanksgiving #Gratitude #Two

seizing the swift logic of a woman, Curse God and die.
-- Edwin Arlington Robinson

#Women #Logic #Curse

Poets and kings are but the clerks of Time, Tiering the same dull webs of discontent, Clipping the same sad alnage of the years.
-- Edwin Arlington Robinson

#Time #Poetry #Clerks

And we who delve in beauty's lore Know all that we have known before Of what inexorable cause Makes Time so vicious in his reaping.
-- Edwin Arlington Robinson

#Beauty #Death #Making Time

Ah, when shall come love's courage to be strong! Tell me, O Lord--tell me, O Lord, how long Are we to keep Christ writhing on the cross!
-- Edwin Arlington Robinson

#Courage #Strong #Prayer

For through it all--above, beyond it all-- I know the far-sent message of the years, I feel the coming glory of the Light.
-- Edwin Arlington Robinson

#Glory

I cannot find my way: there is no star In all the shrouded heavens anywhere
-- Edwin Arlington Robinson

#Heaven #My Way

I am living on hope and faith ... a pretty good diet when the mind will receive them.
-- Edwin Arlington Robinson

#Mind #Hope And Faith

And thus we all are nighing The truth we fear to know: Death will end our crying For friends that come and go.
-- Edwin Arlington Robinson

#Cry #Ends #Comes And Goes

Friends: people who borrow my books and set wet glasses on them.
-- Edwin Arlington Robinson

#Friendship #Book #Glasses

It is impossible to understand the economic system in which we are living if we try to interpret it as a rational scheme.It has to be understood as an awkward phase in a continuing process of historical development.
-- Edwin Arlington Robinson

#Awkward #Historical #Trying

No matter what we are, and what we sing, Time finds a withered leaf in every laurel
-- Edwin Arlington Robinson

#Matter #Laurels #Leafs

Are we no greater than the noise we make Along one blind atomic pilgrimage Whereon by crass chance billeted we go Because our brains and bones and cartilage Will have it so?
-- Edwin Arlington Robinson

#Brain #Noise #Chance

For when a woman is left too much alone, sooner or later she begins to think; and no man knows what then she may discover.
-- Edwin Arlington Robinson

#Love #Men #Thinking

The stillness of October gold Went out like beauty from a face.
-- Edwin Arlington Robinson

#Autumn #Gold #Faces

This morning I deleted the hyphen from "hell-bound" and made it one word; this afternoon I redivided it and restored the hyphen.
-- Edwin Arlington Robinson

#Morning #Writing #Afternoon

Pity is like a knife, sometimes, and it may pierce one who employs it more shrewdly than the victim it would save.
-- Edwin Arlington Robinson

#Knives #May #Sometimes

I have been reading the Old Testament, a most bloodthirsty and perilous book for the young. Jehovah is beyond doubt the worst character in fiction.
-- Edwin Arlington Robinson

#Wisdom #Book #Reading

The world is a kind of spiritual kindergarten where millions of bewildered infants are trying to spell "God" with the wrong blocks.
-- Edwin Arlington Robinson

#Spiritual #Block #Religion

The typical entrepreneur is no longer the bold and tireless man of Marshall, or the sly and rapacious Moneybags of Marx, but a mass of inert shareholders, indistinguishable from rentiers, who employ salaried managers to run their concerns.
-- Edwin Arlington Robinson

#Running #Men #Entrepreneur

Your Dollar is your only Word, / The wrath of it your only fear. / You build it altars tall enough / To make you see, but your are blind; / You cannot leave it long enough / To look before you or behind.
-- Edwin Arlington Robinson

#Wrath #Long #Dollars

Do you hear the children singing?
-- Edwin Arlington Robinson

#Children #Singing

Where's the need of singing now?
-- Edwin Arlington Robinson

#Singing #Needs

To some will come a time when change itself is beauty, if not heaven.
-- Edwin Arlington Robinson

#Heaven

Love must have wings to fly away from love, And to fly back again.
-- Edwin Arlington Robinson

#Love #Wings #Fly Away

I mean you last as long as lies.
-- Edwin Arlington Robinson

#Lying #Mean #Long

Were it not for love, Poor life would be a ship not worth launching.
-- Edwin Arlington Robinson

#Love #Would Be #Ships

I don't say what God is, but a name That somehow answers us when we are driven To feel and think how little we have to do With what we are.
-- Edwin Arlington Robinson

#God #Thinking #Names

I shall have more to say when I am dead.
-- Edwin Arlington Robinson

#Death #Expression

Shake the tree of life itself and bring down fruits unheard of.
-- Edwin Arlington Robinson

#Tree #Fruit #Shakes

Youth sees too far to see how near it is To seeing farther.
-- Edwin Arlington Robinson

#Youth