Edwin Arlington Robinson Quotes

Where's the need of singing now?

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

Do you hear the children singing?

Life is the game that must be played.

The world is a kind of spiritual kindergarten where millions of bewildered infants are trying to spell "God" with the wrong blocks.

Youth sees too far to see how near it is To seeing farther.

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.

And thus we all are nighing The truth we fear to know: Death will end our crying For friends that come and go.

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

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.

Pity is like a knife, sometimes, and it may pierce one who employs it more shrewdly than the victim it would save.

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.

Two kinds of gratitude: The sudden kind we feel for what we take; the larger kind we feel for what we give.

This morning I deleted the hyphen from "hell-bound" and made it one word; this afternoon I redivided it and restored the hyphen.

I mean you last as long as lies.

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

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