(22 December 1869 – 6 April 1935 / Maine / United States)

poet Edwin Arlington Robinson
#123 on top 500 poets

Quotations

  • ''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 (1869-1935), U.S. poet. Richard Cory (l. 13-16). . . Oxford Book of American Verse, The. F. O. Matthiessen, ed. (1950) Oxford University Press.
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  • ''Poets and kings are but the clerks of Time,
    Tiering the same dull webs of discontent,
    Clipping the same sad alnage of the years.''
    Edwin Arlington Robinson (1869-1935), U.S. poet. The Clerks (l. 12-14). . . Anthology of American Poetry. George Gesner, ed. (1983) Avenel Books.
    18 person liked.
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  • ''You fade—as if the last of days
    Were fading and all wars were done.''
    Edwin Arlington Robinson (1869-1935), U.S. poet. The Dark Hills (l. 7-8). . . Norton Anthology of Modern Poetry, The. Richard Ellmann and Robert O'Clair, eds. (2d ed., 1988) W. W. Norton & Company.
    20 person liked.
    		12 person did not like.
  • ''They are all gone away,
    The house is shut and still,
    There is nothing more to say.''
    Edwin Arlington Robinson (1869-1935), U.S. poet. The House on the Hill (l. 1-3). . . Modern American Poetry. Louis Untermeyer, ed. (8th rev. ed., 1962) Harcourt, Brace and Company.
    20 person liked.
    		12 person did not like.
  • ''He may have had for evil or for good
    No argument; he may have had no care
    For what without himself went anywhere''
    Edwin Arlington Robinson (1869-1935), U.S. poet. The Man against the Sky (l. 77-79). . . Oxford Book of American Verse, The. F. O. Matthiessen, ed. (1950) Oxford University Press.
    5 person liked.
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  • ''When infant Science makes a pleasant face
    And waves again that hollow toy, the Race;''
    Edwin Arlington Robinson (1869-1935), U.S. poet. The Man against the Sky (l. 253-254). . . Oxford Book of American Verse, The. F. O. Matthiessen, ed. (1950) Oxford University Press.
    5 person liked.
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  • ''the cold eternal shores
    That look sheer down
    To the dark tideless floods of Nothingness
    Where all who know may drown.''
    Edwin Arlington Robinson (1869-1935), U.S. poet. The Man against the Sky (l. 311-314). . . Oxford Book of American Verse, The. F. O. Matthiessen, ed. (1950) Oxford University Press.
    6 person liked.
    		2 person did not like.
  • ''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?''
    Edwin Arlington Robinson (1869-1935), U.S. poet. The Man against the Sky (l. 216-220). . . Oxford Book of American Verse, The. F. O. Matthiessen, ed. (1950) Oxford University Press.
    6 person liked.
    		1 person did not like.
  • ''He may have been a master of his fate,
    And of his atoms,—ready as another
    In his emergence to exonerate
    His father and his mother;''
    Edwin Arlington Robinson (1869-1935), U.S. poet. The Man against the Sky (l. 169-172). . . Oxford Book of American Verse, The. F. O. Matthiessen, ed. (1950) Oxford University Press.
    5 person liked.
    		1 person did not like.
  • ''He may, be seeing all things for the best,
    Incite futurity to do the rest.''
    Edwin Arlington Robinson (1869-1935), U.S. poet. The Man against the Sky (l. 69-70). . . Oxford Book of American Verse, The. F. O. Matthiessen, ed. (1950) Oxford University Press.
    6 person liked.
    		1 person did not like.

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Villanelle of Change

Since Persia fell at Marathon,
The yellow years have gathered fast:
Long centuries have come and gone.

And yet (they say) the place will don
A phantom fury of the past,
Since Persia fell at Marathon;

And as of old, when Helicon

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