52 Quotes by Edwin Arlington Robinson

Where's the need of singing now?

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

The stillness of October gold Went out like beauty from a face.

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.

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.

No matter what we are, and what we sing, Time finds a withered leaf in every laurel

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?

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

For through it all--above, beyond it all-- I know the far-sent message of the years, I feel the coming glory of the Light.