Edwin A. Robinson
Edwin A. Robinson
beauty death causes
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.
time kings 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.
mind hope-and-faith living-on
I am living on hope and faith ... a pretty good diet when the mind will receive them.
brain noise chance
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?
matter laurels leafs
No matter what we are, and what we sing, Time finds a withered leaf in every laurel
awkward historical trying
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.
heaven arlington ifs
To some will come a time when change itself is beauty, if not heaven.