For through it all--above, beyond it all-- Edwin Arlington Robinson More Quotes by Edwin Arlington Robinson More Quotes From Edwin Arlington Robinson Life is the game that must be played. Edwin Arlington Robinson arlingtongameslife Two kinds of gratitude: The sudden kind we feel for what we take; the larger kind we feel for what we give. Edwin Arlington Robinson gratitudethanksgivingthankful 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. Edwin Arlington Robinson arlingtonwrathlong And thus we all are nighing The truth we fear to know: Death will end our crying For friends that come and go. Edwin Arlington Robinson arlingtoncryends I shall have more to say when I am dead. Edwin Arlington Robinson arlingtonexpressiondeath The world is a kind of spiritual kindergarten where millions of bewildered infants are trying to spell "God" with the wrong blocks. Edwin Arlington Robinson blockspiritualgod 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. Edwin Arlington Robinson lovementhinking Poets and kings are but the clerks of Time, Edwin Arlington Robinson kingstimeyears Love must have wings to fly away from love, And to fly back again. Edwin Arlington Robinson arlingtonwingslove Were it not for love, Poor life would be a ship not worth launching. Edwin Arlington Robinson shipswould-belove I am living on hope and faith ... a pretty good diet when the mind will receive them. Edwin Arlington Robinson hope-and-faithliving-onmind I cannot find my way: there is no star Edwin Arlington Robinson starsheavenway Pity is like a knife, sometimes, and it may pierce one who employs it more shrewdly than the victim it would save. Edwin Arlington Robinson knivesmaysometimes Language that tells us, through a more or less emotional reaction, Edwin Arlington Robinson reactionsemotionallanguage Shake the tree of life itself and bring down fruits unheard of. Edwin Arlington Robinson shakesfruittree Do you hear the children singing? Edwin Arlington Robinson singingchildren Ah, when shall come love's courage to be strong! Edwin Arlington Robinson strongprayercourage seizing the swift logic of a woman, Edwin Arlington Robinson cursewomenlogic 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. Edwin Arlington Robinson godnamesthinking 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. Edwin Arlington Robinson readingwisdombook
