A collection of quotes and sayings by Edwin Arlington Robinson on love, wings, fly, youth, thoughts, dead, alone, woman, pity, light, God, seeing, game and gratitude.
Edwin Arlington Robinson was an eminent American poet who won three ‘Pulitzer Prize’ for his poems, and writings. He was also four times nominated for the ‘Nobel Prize in Literature’. His childhood as described by him was ‘stark and unhappy’. His struggles were reflected in his poems, thoughts and writings that exhibited dark pessimism. ‘The Torrent and the Night Before’ was his first book, which was self-published. His literary success began to mount with his second book, ‘The Children Of The Night’ that had a wider circulation. Some of his other notable works include, ‘Lancelot’, ‘Tristram’, ‘Sonnets’, ‘Selected Poems’, The Glory of The Nightingales’, ‘A Happy Man’ and various others. Take a look at the quotable quotations and sayings by Edwin Arlington Robinson which have been curated from his plays, poems, writings, thoughts, letters, works and life. Presenting a collection of quotes and thoughts by Edwin Arlington Robinson on stars, heaven, spiritual, emotional, reactions, languages, logic, courage, prayer, strong, poetry, wisdom etc.
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
Shake the tree of life itself and bring down fruits unheard of.
Edwin Arlington Robinson
To some will come a time when change itself is beauty, if not heaven.
The world is not a prison house, but a kind of spiritual kindergarten where millions of of bewildered infants are trying to spell God with the wrong blocks.
Ah, when shall come love's courage to be strong!
Tell me, O Lord--tell me, O Lord, how long
Are we to keep Christ writhing on the cross!
Edwin Arlington Robinson
Friends: people who borrow my books and set wet glasses on them.
Edwin Arlington Robinson
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.
