Edwin Arlington Robinson Quotes

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

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

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

Ah, when shall come love’s courage to be strong!Tell me, O Lord–tell me, O Lord, how longAre we to keep Christ writhing on the cross!

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

Life is the game that must be played.

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

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.

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.

Do you hear the children singing?

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

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