Youth sees too far
Youth sees too far to see how near it is To seeing farther. Edwin Arlington Robinson
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Youth sees too far to see how near it is To seeing farther. Edwin Arlington Robinson
To some will come a time when change itself is beauty, if not heaven. Edwin Arlington Robinson
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. Edwin Arlington Robinson
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
Love must have wings to fly away from love, And to fly back again. Edwin Arlington Robinson
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. Edwin Arlington Robinson
And thus we all are nighing The truth we fear to know: Death will end our crying For friends that come and go. Edwin Arlington Robinson
I shall have more to say when I am dead. Edwin Arlington Robinson
The world is a kind of spiritual kindergarten where millions of bewildered infants are trying to spell \”God\” with the wrong blocks. Edwin Arlington Robinson
Two kinds of gratitude: The sudden kind we feel for what we take; the larger kind we feel for what we give. Edwin Arlington Robinson