Edwin Arlington Robinson Quotes

Love must have wings to fly away from love And to fly back again.

Edwin Arlington Robinson

Life is the game that must be played: This truth at least good friends we know So live and laugh nor be dismayed As one by one the phantoms go.

Edwin Arlington Robinson

I am living on hope and faith ... a pretty good diet when the mind will receive them.

Edwin Arlington Robinson

To some will come a time when change itself is beauty if not heaven.

Edwin Arlington Robinson

Life is the game that must be played

Edwin Arlington Robinson

Whenever Richard Cory went down town,We people on the pavement looked at him:He was a gentleman from sole to crown,Clean favored, imperially slim.And he was always quietly arrayed,And he was always human when he talked;But still he fluttered pulses when he said,'Good-morning,' and he glittered when he walked.And he was rich--yes, richer than a king--And admirably schooled in every grace:In fine, we thought that he was everythingTo make us wish that we were in his place.So on we worked, and waited for the light,And went without the meat, and cursed the bread;And Richard Cory, one calm summer night,Went home and put a bullet through his head.

Edwin Arlington Robinson

And thus we all are nighingThe truth we fear to know:Death will end our cryingFor friends that come and go.

Edwin Arlington Robinson