52 Quotes by Edwin Arlington Robinson

Life is the game that must be played.

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

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

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

I don’t say what God is, but a name That somehow answers us when we are driven To feel and think how little we have to do With what we are.

Where’s the need of singing now?

He knows much of what men paint themselves would blister in the light of what they are.