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

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

She knows as well as anyone that pity, having played, soon tires. — Edwin Arlington Robinson

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

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

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

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

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

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

The stillness of October gold
Went out like beauty from a face. — Edwin Arlington Robinson

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

Life is the game that must be played — Edwin Arlington Robinson

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

I mean you last as long as lies. — Edwin Arlington Robinson

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

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

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

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

Love must have wings to fly away from love, and to fly back again. — Edwin Arlington Robinson

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

Do you hear the children singing? — Edwin Arlington Robinson

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

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

Where's the need of singing now? — Edwin Arlington Robinson

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

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

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

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

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

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

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