Quotes from Edwin Arlington Robinson

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?

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

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

Life is the game that must be played