Edwin Arlington Robinson Quotes

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• Life is the game that must be played.

  Edwin Arlington Robinson

  Life, Games, Arlington

  Edwin Arlington Robinson (2015). “Delphi Poetical Works and Plays of Edwin Arlington Robinson (Illustrated)”, p.90, Delphi Classics

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• 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, Thankful, Gratitude

  Edwin Arlington Robinson (2015). “Delphi Poetical Works and Plays of Edwin Arlington Robinson (Illustrated)”, p.142, Delphi Classics

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• 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

  God, Spiritual, Block

  Edwin Arlington Robinson, Edith Brower (1968). “Edwin Arlington Robinson's letters to Edith Brower”, Belknap Press

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• Shake the tree of life itself and bring down fruits unheard of.

  Edwin Arlington Robinson

  Tree, Fruit, Shakes

  Edwin Arlington Robinson (2007). “Robinson: Poems”, Everyman's Library

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• I shall have more to say when I am dead.

  Edwin Arlington Robinson

  Death, Expression, Arlington

  "John Brown" l. 199 (1920)

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• Were it not for love, Poor life would be a ship not worth launching.

  Edwin Arlington Robinson

  Love, Would Be, Ships

  Edwin Arlington Robinson, James P. Carley (1990). “Edwin Arlington Robinson”, p.353, Boydell & Brewer

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• 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

  Arlington, Cry, Ends

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

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• I cannot find my way: there is no star
  In all the shrouded heavens anywhere

  Edwin Arlington Robinson

  Stars, Heaven, Way

  Edwin Arlington Robinson (2007). “Robinson: Poems”, Everyman's Library

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• 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

  Edwin Arlington Robinson, James P. Carley (1990). “Edwin Arlington Robinson”, p.319, Boydell & Brewer

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• Love must have wings to fly away from love, And to fly back again.

  Edwin Arlington Robinson

  Love, Wings, Arlington

  Edwin Arlington Robinson (1927). “Merlin”

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• 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

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• I am living on hope and faith ... a pretty good diet when the mind will receive them.

  Edwin Arlington Robinson

  Mind, Hope And Faith, Living On

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• 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, Kings, Years

  Edwin Arlington Robinson (2015). “Delphi Poetical Works and Plays of Edwin Arlington Robinson (Illustrated)”, p.111, Delphi Classics

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• 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, Arlington

  Edwin Arlington Robinson (1966). “Selected poems”

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• 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

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• 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

  Edwin Arlington Robinson (1966). “Selected poems”

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• Language that tells us, through a more or less emotional reaction,
  something that can not be said.

  Edwin Arlington Robinson

  Emotional, Language, Reactions

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

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• Do you hear the children singing?

  Edwin Arlington Robinson

  Children, Singing

  Edwin Arlington Robinson, “London Bridge”

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• 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

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• 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

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• seizing the swift logic of a woman,
  Curse God and die.

  Edwin Arlington Robinson

  Women, Logic, Curse

  Edwin Arlington Robinson (2015). “Delphi Poetical Works and Plays of Edwin Arlington Robinson (Illustrated)”, p.80, Delphi Classics

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• I wonder more and more just where I may have come out if I had never seen Harvard Square.

  Edwin Arlington Robinson

  Squares, May, Wonder

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• To some will come a time when change itself is beauty, if not heaven.

  Edwin Arlington Robinson

  Heaven, Arlington, Ifs

  Edwin Arlington Robinson (1966). “Selected poems”

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• No matter what we are, and what we sing, Time finds a withered leaf in every laurel

  Edwin Arlington Robinson

  Matter, Laurels, Leafs

  Edwin Arlington Robinson, “Three Quatrains”

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• Friends: people who borrow my books and set wet glasses on them.

  Edwin Arlington Robinson

  Friendship, Funny Best Friend, Book

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