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

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Source : Edwin Arlington Robinson (1975). “Uncollected poems and prose of Edwin Arlington Robinson”

Edwin Arlington Robinson

#Cry Quotes #Ends Quotes #Comes And Goes Quotes

“When you fully understand the situation, it is worse than you think.”
“I try to dress classy and dance cheesy.”
“I want to promote poetry to the point where you got all the baldhead kids running around doing poetry, getting the music out of the way and having only words, the spoken word, and then see what happens.”
“I'm a fan of Jerome Kern and Gershwin. That's my kind of music.”
“You can't make chicken salad out of chicken feathers”
“Not for yourself, O church, do you exist, any more than Christ existed for himself.”
“The decrease in incidents of death from cancer is largely attributable to new medicines or therapeutics. Perhaps a third is attributable to changing our environment, and that includes of course smoking which I believe accounted for probably 20 percent of deaths from, certainly from lung cancer, more than that from lung cancer, but from cancer overall.”

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“I do not pose my sitters. I do not deliberate and then concoct... Before painting, when I talk to the person, they unconsciously assume their most characteristic pose, which in a way involves all their character and social standing - what the world has done to them and their retaliation.”

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