Top 39 Edwin Arlington Quotes

#1. Two kinds of gratitude: The sudden kind we feel for what we take; the larger kind we feel for what we give.

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#2. She fears him, and will always ask
What fated her to choose him;
She meets in his engaging mask
All reasons to refuse him;
But what she meets and what she fears
Are less than are the downward years
Drawn slowly to the foamless weirs
Of age, were she to lose him.

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#3. And there was no Camelot now -- now that no Queen was there, all white and gold, under an oaktree with another sunlight sifting itself in silence on her glory through the dark leaves above her where she sat, smiling at what she feared, and fearing least what most there was to fear.

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#4. 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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#5. For through it all
above, beyond it all
I know the far-sent message of the years,
I feel the coming glory of the Light.

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#6. I am living on hope and faith ... a pretty good diet when the mind will receive them.

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#7. 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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#8. The world is not a prison house, but a kind of spiritual kindergarten where millions of of bewildered infants are trying to spell God with the wrong blocks.

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#9. 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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#10. Shake the tree of life itself and bring down fruits unheard of.

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#11. It is impossible to understand the economic system in which we are living if we try to interpret it as a rational scheme.It has to be understood as an awkward phase in a continuing process of historical development.

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#12. She knows as well as anyone that pity, having played, soon tires.

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#13. This morning I deleted the hyphen from "hell-bound" and made it one word; this afternoon I redivided it and restored the hyphen.

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#14. Where's the need of singing now?

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#15. I wonder more and more just where I may have come out if I had never seen Harvard Square.

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#16. Do you hear the children singing?

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#17. And we who delve in beauty's lore
Know all that we have known before
Of what inexorable cause
Makes Time so vicious in his reaping.

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#18. Were it not for love, Poor life would be a ship not worth launching.

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

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#20. Alone, he saw the slanting waves roll in,
Each to its impotent annihilation
In a long wash of foam, until the sound
Become for him a warning and a torture,
Like a malign reproof reiterating
In vain its cold and only sound of doom.

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

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#22. No matter what we are, and what we sing, Time finds a withered leaf in every laurel

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#23. 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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#24. Seizing the swift logic of a woman,
Curse God and die.

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#25. I cannot find my way: there is no star
In all the shrouded heavens anywhere

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#26. I shall have more to say when I am dead.

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#27. Life is the game that must be played

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#28. I mean you last as long as lies.

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#29. 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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#30. The stillness of October gold
Went out like beauty from a face.

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#31. 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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#32. 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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#33. Language that tells us, through a more or less emotional reaction,
something that can not be said.

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#34. Friends: people who borrow my books and set wet glasses on them.

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#35. Love must have wings to fly away from love, and to fly back again.

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#36. Pity is like a knife, sometimes, and it may pierce one who employs it more shrewdly than the victim it would save.

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#37. To some will come a time when change itself is beauty, if not heaven.

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#38. 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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#39. 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.

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