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