Edwin Arlington Robinson
I shall have more to say when I am dead.
He knows much of what men paint themselves would blister in the light of what they are.
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.
Love must have wings to fly away from love, and to fly back again.
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.
She knows as well as anyone that pity, having played, soon tires.
Youth sees too far to see how near it is To seeing farther.
Life is the game that must be played.Collection: Life
Two kinds of gratitude: The sudden kind we feel for what we take; the larger kind we feel for what we give.Collection: Thanksgiving
The world is a kind of spiritual kindergarten where millions of bewildered infants are trying to spell "God" with the wrong blocks.Collection: God
Shake the tree of life itself and bring down fruits unheard of.Collection: Tree
And thus we all are nighing The truth we fear to know: Death will end our crying For friends that come and go.Collection: Arlington
Were it not for love, Poor life would be a ship not worth launching.Collection: Love
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.Collection: Love
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.Collection: Wrath
I am living on hope and faith ... a pretty good diet when the mind will receive them.Collection: Mind
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.Collection: Wisdom
This morning I deleted the hyphen from "hell-bound" and made it one word; this afternoon I redivided it and restored the hyphen.Collection: Morning
Pity is like a knife, sometimes, and it may pierce one who employs it more shrewdly than the victim it would save.Collection: Knives
Do you hear the children singing?Collection: Children
To some will come a time when change itself is beauty, if not heaven.Collection: Heaven
I wonder more and more just where I may have come out if I had never seen Harvard Square.Collection: Squares
Friends: people who borrow my books and set wet glasses on them.Collection: Friendship
No matter what we are, and what we sing, Time finds a withered leaf in every laurelCollection: Matter
I mean you last as long as lies.Collection: Lying
The typical entrepreneur is no longer the bold and tireless man of Marshall, or the sly and rapacious Moneybags of Marx, but a mass of inert shareholders, indistinguishable from rentiers, who employ salaried managers to run their concerns.Collection: Running
Are we no greater than the noise we make Along one blind atomic pilgrimage Whereon by crass chance billeted we go Because our brains and bones and cartilage Will have it so?Collection: Brain
Where's the need of singing now?Collection: Singing
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.Collection: Awkward