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I mean you last as long as lies.

I mean you last as long as lies.

Edwin Arlington Robinson
Lying, Mean, Long
Edwin Arlington Robinson (2015). “Delphi Poetical Works and Plays of Edwin Arlington Robinson (Illustrated)”, p.66, Delphi Classics

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.

Edwin Arlington Robinson
Running, Men, Entrepreneur

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

Edwin Arlington Robinson
Autumn, Gold, October
Edwin Arlington Robinson (2014). “Robinson: Poems”, p.156, Everyman's Library

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.

Edwin Arlington Robinson
Light, Years, Messages
Edwin Arlington Robinson (1896). “The Torrent: And, The Night Before”

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

Edwin Arlington Robinson
Arlington, Youth, Seeing
Edwin Arlington Robinson, James P. Carley (1990). “Edwin Arlington Robinson”, p.255, Boydell & Brewer

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?

Edwin Arlington Robinson
Brain, Noise, Chance
Ellsworth Barnard, Edwin Arlington ROBINSON (1969). “Edwin Arlington Robinson”, New York Macmillan 1952.

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.

Edwin Arlington Robinson
Beauty, Death, Causes
Edwin Arlington Robinson, Donald Hall (1994). “The essential Robinson”, Ecco Pr

Where's the need of singing now?

Edwin Arlington Robinson
Singing, Needs
Edwin Arlington Robinson (1999). “The Poetry of E.A. Robinson”

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.

Edwin Arlington Robinson
Awkward, Historical, Trying

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