52 Quotes by Edwin Arlington Robinson

The world is a kind of spiritual kindergarten where millions of bewildered infants are trying to spell "God" with the wrong blocks.

I wonder more and more just where I may have come out if I had never seen Harvard Square.

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!

And we who delve in beauty's lore Know all that we have known before Of what inexorable cause Makes Time so vicious in his reaping.

Poets and kings are but the clerks of Time, Tiering the same dull webs of discontent, Clipping the same sad alnage of the years.

This morning I deleted the hyphen from "hell-bound" and made it one word; this afternoon I redivided it and restored the hyphen.

Shake the tree of life itself and bring down fruits unheard of.

I mean you last as long as lies.

Language that tells us, through a more or less emotional reaction, something that can not be said.