Edwin A. Robinson
Edwin A. Robinson
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.
friendship funny-best-friend book
Friends: people who borrow my books and set wet glasses on them.
children singing
Do you hear the children singing?
singing needs
Where's the need of singing now?
heaven arlington ifs
To some will come a time when change itself is beauty, if not heaven.
love wings arlington
Love must have wings to fly away from love, And to fly back again.
autumn gold faces
The stillness of October gold Went out like beauty from a face.
running men entrepreneur
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.
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.
mind hope-and-faith living-on
I am living on hope and faith ... a pretty good diet when the mind will receive them.
years light messages
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.
spiritual block religion
The world is a kind of spiritual kindergarten where millions of bewildered infants are trying to spell "God" with the wrong blocks.
squares may wonder
I wonder more and more just where I may have come out if I had never seen Harvard Square.
courage strong prayer
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!