Edwin Arlington Robinson
Edwin Arlington Robinson
Edwin Arlington Robinsonwas an American poet who won three Pulitzer Prizes for his work...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionPoet
Date of Birth22 December 1869
CountryUnited States of America
tree fruit shakes
Shake the tree of life itself and bring down fruits unheard of.
lying mean long
I mean you last as long as lies.
emotional language said
Language that tells us, through a more or less emotional reaction, something that can not be said.
love ships would-be
Were it not for love, Poor life would be a ship not worth launching.
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.
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.
women logic curse
seizing the swift logic of a woman, Curse God and die.
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.
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.
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.
death expression arlington
I shall have more to say when I am dead.
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.