Edwin Arlington Robinson (December 22, 1869 – April 6, 1935) was an American poet who won three Pulitzer Prizes for his work.
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“But still he fluttered pulses when he said,
‘Good-morning,’ and he glittered when he walked.”
—Edwin Arlington Robinson (1869–1935)
“Now view yourself as I was, on the spot—
With a slight kind of engine. Do you see?
Like this . . . You wouldn’t hang me? I thought not.’”
—Edwin Arlington Robinson (1869–1935)
“He never told us what he was,
Or what mischance, or other cause,
Had banished him from better days
To play the Prince of Castaways.”
—Edwin Arlington Robinson (1869–1935)
“Where was he going, this man against the sky?
You know not, nor do I.”
—Edwin Arlington Robinson (1869–1935)
“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)