Edwin Arlington Robinson

“She knows as well as anyone that pity, having played, soon tires.”

“For when a woman is left too much alone, sooner or later she begins to think;- And no man knows what then she may discover.”

“Love must have wings to fly away from love, and to fly back again.”

“And thus we all are nighingThe truth we fear to know:Death will end our cryingFor friends that come and go.”

“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.”

“I shall have more to say when I am dead.”

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

“He knows much of what men paint themselves would blister in the light of what they are.”

“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.”

“Life is the game that must be played”