Robinson

Famous quotes containing the word robinson:

    Passion is here a soilure of the wits,
    We’re told, and Love a cross for them to bear;
    Joy shivers in the corner where she knits
    And Conscience always has the rocking-chair,
    Cheerful as when she tortured into fits
    The first cat that was ever killed by Care.
    —Edwin Arlington Robinson (1869–1935)

    He set the jug down slowly at his feet
    With trembling care, knowing that most things break;
    —Edwin Arlington Robinson (1869–1935)

    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.
    —Edwin Arlington Robinson (1869–1935)