I am living on hope and faith ... a pretty good diet when the mind will receive them. Edwin Arlington Robinson More Quotes by Edwin Arlington Robinson More Quotes From Edwin Arlington Robinson I mean you last as long as lies. Edwin Arlington Robinson longmeanlying For through it all--above, beyond it all-- Edwin Arlington Robinson lightmessagesyears Where's the need of singing now? Edwin Arlington Robinson singingneeds This morning I deleted the hyphen from "hell-bound" and made it one word; this afternoon I redivided it and restored the hyphen. Edwin Arlington Robinson afternoonwritingmorning The stillness of October gold Edwin Arlington Robinson autumnoctobergold Friends: people who borrow my books and set wet glasses on them. Edwin Arlington Robinson funny-best-friendfriendshipbook No matter what we are, and what we sing, Time finds a withered leaf in every laurel Edwin Arlington Robinson leafslaurelsmatter 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. Edwin Arlington Robinson awkwardhistoricaltrying And we who delve in beauty's lore Edwin Arlington Robinson causesbeautydeath I wonder more and more just where I may have come out if I had never seen Harvard Square. Edwin Arlington Robinson squareswondermay Youth sees too far to see how near it is To seeing farther. Edwin Arlington Robinson arlingtonseeingyouth 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. Edwin Arlington Robinson entrepreneurrunningmen Are we no greater than the noise we make Along one blind atomic pilgrimage Whereon by crass chance billeted we go Because our brains and bones and cartilage Will have it so? Edwin Arlington Robinson chancenoisebrain He knows much of what men paint themselves would blister in the light of what they are. Edwin Arlington Robinson hepaintlightmen She knows as well as anyone that pity, having played, soon tires. Edwin Arlington Robinson soonshewellpity
