Edwin Arlington Robinson Quotes
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Language that tells us, through a more or less emotional reaction, something that can not be said.
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I shall have more to say when I am dead.
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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.
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I wonder more and more just where I may have come out if I had never seen Harvard Square.
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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!
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I cannot find my way: there is no star In all the shrouded heavens anywhere
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seizing the swift logic of a woman, Curse God and die.
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To some will come a time when change itself is beauty, if not heaven.
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Where's the need of singing now?
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No matter what we are, and what we sing, Time finds a withered leaf in every laurel
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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 reaping.
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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.
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Friends: people who borrow my books and set wet glasses on them.
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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.
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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.
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Were it not for love, Poor life would be a ship not worth launching.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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I am living on hope and faith ... a pretty good diet when the mind will receive them.
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Love must have wings to fly away from love, And to fly back again.
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Do you hear the children singing?
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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.
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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.
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Life is the game that must be played.
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The stillness of October gold Went out like beauty from a face.
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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.
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I mean you last as long as lies.
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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 to be understood as an awkward phase in a continuing process of historical development.
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