Edwin A. Robinson
Edwin A. Robinson
morning writing afternoon
This morning I deleted the hyphen from "hell-bound" and made it one word; this afternoon I redivided it and restored the hyphen.
tree fruit shakes
Shake the tree of life itself and bring down fruits unheard of.
stars heaven way
I cannot find my way: there is no star In all the shrouded heavens anywhere
knives may sometimes
Pity is like a knife, sometimes, and it may pierce one who employs it more shrewdly than the victim it would save.
wisdom book reading
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.
live-life games arlington
Life is the game that must be played.
ages power wisdom
The power is yours, but not the sight; / You see not upon what you tread; / You have the ages for your guide, / But not the wisdom to be led.
thanksgiving thankful gratitude
Two kinds of gratitude: The sudden kind we feel for what we take; the larger kind we feel for what we give.
arlington cry ends
And thus we all are nighing The truth we fear to know: Death will end our crying For friends that come and go.
wrath long dollars
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.
women logic curse
seizing the swift logic of a woman, Curse God and die.
god thinking names
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.
death expression arlington
I shall have more to say when I am dead.
love men thinking
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.