Delphi Poetical Works and Plays of Edwi...
A source page for quotes linked to Edwin Arlington Robinson.
“Where the Light falls, death falls; And in the darkness comes the Light.”
“Shake the tree of life itself and bring down fruits unheard of.”
“No matter what we are, and what we sing, Time finds a withered leaf in every laurel”
“I am living on hope and faith ... a pretty good diet when the mind will receive them.”
“I cannot find my way: there is no star In all the shrouded heavens anywhere”
“seizing the swift logic of a woman, Curse God and die.”
“I wonder more and more just where I may have come out if I had never seen Harvard Square.”
“Language that tells us, through a more or less emotional reaction, something that can not be said.”
“Life is the game that must be played.”
“The stillness of October gold Went out like beauty from a face.”
“Were it not for love, Poor life would be a ship not worth launching.”
“Friends: people who borrow my books and set wet glasses on them.”
“Where's the need of singing now?”
“To some will come a time when change itself is beauty, if not heaven.”
“Love must have wings to fly away from love, And to fly back again.”
“I mean you last as long as lies.”
“Youth sees too far to see how near it is To seeing farther.”