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> [Friends: people who borrow my books and set wet glasses on them.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/edwin-arlington-robinson/friends-people-who-borrow-my-books-and-set-wet-glasses-on-them/)

[Edwin Arlington Robinson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/edwin-arlington-robinson/)

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## More by Edwin Arlington Robinson

> [I am living on hope and faith ... a pretty good diet when the mind will receive them.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/edwin-arlington-robinson/i-am-living-on-hope-and-faith-a-pretty-good-diet-when-the-mind-will/)

[Edwin Arlington Robinson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/edwin-arlington-robinson/)

> [Life is the game that must be played.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/edwin-arlington-robinson/life-is-the-game-that-must-be-played/)

[Edwin Arlington Robinson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/edwin-arlington-robinson/)

> [I cannot find my way: there is no star In all the shrouded heavens anywhere](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/edwin-arlington-robinson/i-cannot-find-my-way-there-is-no-star-in-all-the-shrouded-heavens/)

[Edwin Arlington Robinson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/edwin-arlington-robinson/)

> [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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/edwin-arlington-robinson/ah-when-shall-come-love-s-courage-to-be-strong-tell-me-o-lord-tell-me/)

[Edwin Arlington Robinson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/edwin-arlington-robinson/)

> [The world is not a prison house but a kind of spiritual kindergarten where millions of bewildered infants are trying to spell God with…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/edwin-arlington-robinson/the-world-is-not-a-prison-house-but-a-kind-of-spiritual-kindergarten/)

[Edwin Arlington Robinson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/edwin-arlington-robinson/)

> [Were it not for love, Poor life would be a ship not worth launching.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/edwin-arlington-robinson/were-it-not-for-love-poor-life-would-be-a-ship-not-worth-launching/)

[Edwin Arlington Robinson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/edwin-arlington-robinson/)

> [The typical entrepreneur is no longer the bold and tireless man of Marshall, or the sly and rapacious Moneybags of Marx, but a mass…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/edwin-arlington-robinson/the-typical-entrepreneur-is-no-longer-the-bold-and-tireless-man-of/)

[Edwin Arlington Robinson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/edwin-arlington-robinson/)

> [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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/edwin-arlington-robinson/it-is-impossible-to-understand-the-economic-system-in-which-we-are/)

[Edwin Arlington Robinson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/edwin-arlington-robinson/)

> [Where's the need of singing now?](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/edwin-arlington-robinson/where-s-the-need-of-singing-now/)

[Edwin Arlington Robinson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/edwin-arlington-robinson/)

> [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.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/edwin-arlington-robinson/for-through-it-all-above-beyond-it-all-i-know-the-far-sent-message-of/)

[Edwin Arlington Robinson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/edwin-arlington-robinson/)

> [And thus we all are nighing The truth we fear to know: Death will end our crying For friends that come and go.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/edwin-arlington-robinson/and-thus-we-all-are-nighing-the-truth-we-fear-to-know-death-will-end/)

[Edwin Arlington Robinson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/edwin-arlington-robinson/)

> [Youth sees too far to see how near it is To seeing farther.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/edwin-arlington-robinson/youth-sees-too-far-to-see-how-near-it-is-to-seeing-farther/)

[Edwin Arlington Robinson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/edwin-arlington-robinson/)

> [For when a woman is left too much alone, sooner or later she begins to think; and no man knows what then she may…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/edwin-arlington-robinson/for-when-a-woman-is-left-too-much-alone-sooner-or-later-she-begins-to/)

[Edwin Arlington Robinson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/edwin-arlington-robinson/)

> [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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/edwin-arlington-robinson/and-we-who-delve-in-beauty-s-lore-know-all-that-we-have-known-before/)

[Edwin Arlington Robinson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/edwin-arlington-robinson/)

> [“GO to the western gate, Luke Havergal,— There where the vines cling crimson on the wall,— And in the twilight wait for what will…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/edwin-arlington-robinson/go-to-the-western-gate-luke-havergal-there-where-the-vines-cling/)

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