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Youth sees too far to see how near it is To seeing farther.

Edwin Arlington Robinson

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Edwin Arlington Robinson
Age: 65 †
Born: 1869
Born: December 22
Died: 1935
Died: April 6
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Maine
United States
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Were it not for love, Poor life would be a ship not worth launching.
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And thus we all are nighing The truth we fear to know: Death will end our crying For friends that come and go.
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Where's the need of singing now?
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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?
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I mean you last as long as lies.
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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.
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Love must have wings to fly away from love, And to fly back again.
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The world is a kind of spiritual kindergarten where millions of bewildered infants are trying to spell God with the wrong blocks.
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seizing the swift logic of a woman, Curse God and die.
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Language that tells us, through a more or less emotional reaction, something that can not be said.
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Do you hear the children singing?
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I am living on hope and faith ... a pretty good diet when the mind will receive them.
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No matter what we are, and what we sing, Time finds a withered leaf in every laurel
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Ah, when shall come love's courage to be strong! Tell me, O Lord--tell me, O Lord, how long Are we to keep Christ writhing on the cross!
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Shake the tree of life itself and bring down fruits unheard of.
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I have been reading the Old Testament, a most bloodthirsty and perilous book for the young. Jehovah is beyond doubt the worst character in fiction.
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I shall have more to say when I am dead.
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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.
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The typical entrepreneur is no longer the bold and tireless man of Marshall, or the sly and rapacious Moneybags of Marx, but a mass of inert shareholders, indistinguishable from rentiers, who employ salaried managers to run their concerns.
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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.
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