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 More Quotes by Edwin Arlington Robinson More Quotes From Edwin Arlington Robinson Life is the game that must be played. Edwin Arlington Robinson arlington games life 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 gratitude thanksgiving thankful 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 arlington wrath long 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 arlington cry ends I shall have more to say when I am dead. Edwin Arlington Robinson arlington expression death 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 block spiritual god 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 love men thinking Poets and kings are but the clerks of Time, Edwin Arlington Robinson kings time years Love must have wings to fly away from love, And to fly back again. Edwin Arlington Robinson arlington wings love Were it not for love, Poor life would be a ship not worth launching. Edwin Arlington Robinson ships would-be love I am living on hope and faith ... a pretty good diet when the mind will receive them. Edwin Arlington Robinson hope-and-faith living-on mind I cannot find my way: there is no star Edwin Arlington Robinson stars heaven way 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 knives may sometimes Language that tells us, through a more or less emotional reaction, Edwin Arlington Robinson reactions emotional language Shake the tree of life itself and bring down fruits unheard of. Edwin Arlington Robinson shakes fruit tree Do you hear the children singing? Edwin Arlington Robinson singing children Ah, when shall come love's courage to be strong! Edwin Arlington Robinson strong prayer courage seizing the swift logic of a woman, Edwin Arlington Robinson curse women logic 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 god names thinking To some will come a time when change itself is beauty, if not heaven. Edwin Arlington Robinson arlington ifs heaven
