Edwin Arlington Robinson Quotes
1869–1935 United States
Edwin Arlington Robinson (December 22, 1869 – April 6, 1935) was an American poet. He was awarded three Pulitzer Prizes for his work.
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Also known as: Robinson, Edwin Arlington
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I shall have more to say when I am dead.
The Three Taverns (1920)
No matter what we are, and what we sing,
Time finds a withered leaf in every laurel
The power is yours, but not the sight;
You see not upon what you tread;
You have the ages for your guide,
But not the wisdom to be led.
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.
Cassandra (1950)
You have made
The cement of your churches out of tears
And ashes, and the fabric will not stand.
Captain Craig (1902)
We are young
And we are friends of time.
Captain Craig (1902)
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.
The Sheaves (1950)
Oh for a poet - for a beacon bright
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?
The Man against the Sky (1950)
He was himself and he had lost the speed
He started with, and he was left behind.
Captain Craig (1902)
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.
Captain Craig (1902)