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