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Edwin Arlington Robinson Quotes: 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?
         

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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Life is the game that must be played.

Life is the game that must be played.



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

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



The world is a kind of spiritual kindergarten where millions of bewildered infants are trying to spell "God" with the wrong blocks.

The world is a kind of spiritual kindergarten where millions of bewildered infants are trying to spell "God" with the wrong blocks.



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

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



I shall have more to say when I am dead.

I shall have more to say when I am dead.



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.

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.



And thus we all are nighing The truth we fear to know: Death will end our crying For friends that come and go.

And thus we all are nighing The truth we fear to know: Death will end our crying For friends that come and go.



Love must have wings to fly away from love, And to fly back again.

Love must have wings to fly away from love, And to fly back again.



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

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



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

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





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