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Edwin Arlington Robinson
11 quotes
“No matter what we are, and what we sing, Time finds a withered leaf in every laurel”
Edwin Arlington Robinson (1869–1935) first seen 1897 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Closing couplet- Quatrain 111 Children of the Night 1897 edition kindle ebook ASIN B004UJKLY2
“Oh for a poet - for a beacon bright”
Edwin Arlington Robinson (1869–1935) first seen 1897 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Opening line of Sonnet Children of the Night 1897 edition kindle ebook ASIN B004UJKLY2
“I shall have more to say when I am dead.”
Edwin Arlington Robinson (1869–1935) first seen 1920 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: The Three Taverns (1920), "John Brown".
“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 (1869–1935) said by 1935 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Cassandra (1950).
“A thousand golden sheaves were lying there, Shining and still, but not for long to stay— As if a thousand girls with golden hair Might rise from where they slept and go away.”
Edwin Arlington Robinson (1869–1935) said by 1935 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: The Sheaves (1950).
“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 (1869–1935) said by 1935 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: The Man against the Sky (1950).
“He was himself and he had lost the speed He started with, and he was left behind.”
Edwin Arlington Robinson (1869–1935) said by 1935 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“You have made The cement of your churches out of tears And ashes, and the fabric will not stand.”
Edwin Arlington Robinson (1869–1935) said by 1935 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“The gods are growing old; The stars are singing Golden hair to gray Green leaf to yellow leaf,—or chlorophyl To xanthophyl, to be more scientific.”
Edwin Arlington Robinson (1869–1935) said by 1935 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“We are young And we are friends of time.”
Edwin Arlington Robinson (1869–1935) said by 1935 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Whenever Richard Cory went down town, We people on the pavement looked at him: He was a gentleman from sole to crown, Clean favored, and 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 everything To 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 (1869–1935) first seen 1910 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Children of the Night (1910).