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Arlington Quotes

Life is the game that must be played.

Life is the game that must be played.

Edwin Arlington Robinson
Life, Games, Arlington
Edwin Arlington Robinson (2015). “Delphi Poetical Works and Plays of Edwin Arlington Robinson (Illustrated)”, p.90, Delphi Classics

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
Wrath, Long, Arlington
Edwin Arlington Robinson (1966). “Selected poems”

I shall have more to say when I am dead.

Edwin Arlington Robinson
Death, Expression, Arlington
"John Brown" l. 199 (1920)

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

Edwin Arlington Robinson
Love, Wings, Arlington
Edwin Arlington Robinson (1927). “Merlin”

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
Arlington, Cry, Ends
Edwin Arlington Robinson (1975). “Uncollected poems and prose of Edwin Arlington Robinson”

I was born in Somerville, but I don't remember very much about it because we moved from there to Arlington when I was five years old, and it was in Arlington that I spent most of my childhood.

Alan Hovhaness
Years, Childhood, Arlington

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

Edwin Arlington Robinson
Heaven, Arlington, Ifs
Edwin Arlington Robinson (1966). “Selected poems”

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

Because of his military service, Dad was buried in Arlington National Cemetery.

Buzz Aldrin
Dad, Military, Arlington
Buzz Aldrin, Ken Abraham (2009). “Magnificent Desolation: The Long Journey Home from the Moon”, p.147, Crown Archetype

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