“Love must have wings to fly away from love And to fly back again.”
— Edwin Arlington Robinson
“Life is the game that must be played: This truth at least good friends we know So live and laugh nor be dismayed As one by one the phantoms go.”
— Edwin Arlington Robinson
“I am living on hope and faith … a pretty good diet when the mind will receive them.”
— Edwin Arlington Robinson
“To some will come a time when change itself is beauty if not heaven.”
— Edwin Arlington Robinson
“Life is the game that must be played”
— Edwin Arlington Robinson
“Whenever Richard Cory went down town,We people on the pavement looked at him:He was a gentleman from sole to crown,Clean favored, imperially slim.And he was always quietly arrayed,And he was always human when he talked;But still he fluttered pulses when he said,’Good-morning,’ and he glittered when he walked.And he was rich–yes, richer than a king–And admirably schooled in every grace:In fine, we thought that he was everythingTo make us wish that we were in his place.So on we worked, and waited for the light,And went without the meat, and cursed the bread;And Richard Cory, one calm summer night,Went home and put a bullet through his head.”
— Edwin Arlington Robinson
“And thus we all are nighingThe truth we fear to know:Death will end our cryingFor friends that come and go.”
— Edwin Arlington Robinson