Edwin Arlington Robinson Quotes
- Life is the game that must be played.
- 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.
- Pity is like a knife, sometimes, and it may pierce one who employs it more shrewdly than the victim it would save.
- This morning I deleted the hyphen from "hell-bound" and made it one word; this afternoon I redivided it and restored the hyphen.
- 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.
- Were it not for love, Poor life would be a ship not worth launching.
- Friends: people who borrow my books and set wet glasses on them.
- Do you hear the children singing?
- Where's the need of singing now?
- To some will come a time when change itself is beauty, if not heaven.
- Love must have wings to fly away from love, And to fly back again.
- I mean you last as long as lies.
- Youth sees too far to see how near it is To seeing farther.
- 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…
- I shall have more to say when I am dead.
- Shake the tree of life itself and bring down fruits unheard of.
- Your Dollar is your only Word, / The wrath of it your only fear. / You build it altars tall enough / To make you…
- And thus we all are nighing The truth we fear to know: Death will end our crying For friends that come and go.
- The world is a kind of spiritual kindergarten where millions of bewildered infants are trying to spell "God" with the wrong blocks.
- Two kinds of gratitude: The sudden kind we feel for what we take; the larger kind we feel for what we give.