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Edwin Arlington Robinson quotes: I cannot find my way: there is no starIn all the shrouded heavens anywhere

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

Edwin Arlington Robinson quotes: Ah, when shall come love's courage to be strong!Tell me, O Lordtell me, O Lord, how longAre we to keep Christ writhing on the cross!

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 quotes: She knows as well as anyone that pity, having played, soon tires.

She knows as well as anyone that pity, having played, soon tires.

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

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

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

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

Edwin Arlington Robinson quotes: For through it allabove, beyond it allI know the far-sent message of the years,I feel the coming glory of the Light.

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.

Edwin Arlington Robinson quotes: Shake the tree of life itself and bring down fruits unheard of.

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

Edwin Arlington Robinson quotes: 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.

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 quotes: The stillness of October goldWent out like beauty from a face.

The stillness of October gold
Went out like beauty from a face.

Edwin Arlington Robinson quotes: I am living on hope and faith ... a pretty good diet when the mind will receive them.

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

Edwin Arlington Robinson quotes: Life is the game that must be played

Life is the game that must be played

Edwin Arlington Robinson quotes: Poets and kings are but the clerks of Time,Tiering the same dull webs of discontent,Clipping the same sad alnage of the years.

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 quotes: I mean you last as long as lies.

I mean you last as long as lies.

Edwin Arlington Robinson quotes: I wonder more and more just where I may have come out if I had never seen Harvard Square.

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

Edwin Arlington Robinson quotes: No matter what we are, and what we sing, Time finds a withered leaf in every laurel

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

Edwin Arlington Robinson quotes: Friends: people who borrow my books and set wet glasses on them.

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

Edwin Arlington Robinson quotes: 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

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 quotes: Love must have wings to fly away from love, and to fly back again.

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

Edwin Arlington Robinson quotes: Seizing the swift logic of a woman,Curse God and die.

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

Edwin Arlington Robinson quotes: Do you hear the children singing?

Do you hear the children singing?

Edwin Arlington Robinson quotes: And we who delve in beauty's loreKnow all that we have known beforeOf what inexorable causeMakes Time so vicious in his reaping.

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.

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

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 quotes: Where's the need of singing now?

Where's the need of singing now?

Edwin Arlington Robinson quotes: I shall have more to say when I am dead.

I shall have more to say when I am dead.

Edwin Arlington Robinson quotes: Were it not for love, Poor life would be a ship not worth launching.

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

Edwin Arlington Robinson quotes: 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.

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

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

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

Edwin Arlington Robinson quotes: Youth sees too far to see how near it is To seeing farther.

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

Edwin Arlington Robinson quotes: He knows much of what men paint themselves would blister in the light of what they are.

He knows much of what men paint themselves would blister in the light of what they are.