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Edwin Arlington Robinson, né le 22 décembre 1869 et décédé le 6 avril 1935, est un poète américain majeur du début du XXe siècle, récompensé à trois reprises du Prix Pulitzer de la poésie, en 1922, 1925 et 1928. Wikipedia  

✵ 22. décembre 1869 – 6. avril 1935
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Edwin Arlington Robinson: Citations en anglais

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

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Edwin Arlington Robinson

“He was himself and he had lost the speed
He started with, and he was left behind.”

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Edwin Arlington Robinson

Captain Craig (1902)

“The gods are growing old;
The stars are singing Golden hair to gray
Green leaf to yellow leaf,—or chlorophyl
To xanthophyl, to be more scientific.”

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Edwin Arlington Robinson

Captain Craig (1902)

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

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Edwin Arlington Robinson

Closing couplet- Quatrain 111 Children of the Night 1897 edition kindle ebook ASIN B004UJKLY2

“You have made
The cement of your churches out of tears
And ashes, and the fabric will not stand.”

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Edwin Arlington Robinson

Captain Craig (1902)

“Whenever Richard Cory went down town,
We people on the pavement looked at him:
He was a gentleman from sole to crown,
Clean favored, and imperially slim.
And he was always quietly arrayed,
And he was always human when he talked;
But still he fluttered pulses when he said,
"Good-morning," and he glittered when he walked.
And he was rich—yes, richer than a king—
And admirably schooled in every grace:
In fine, we thought that he was everything
To make us wish that we were in his place.
So on we worked, and waited for the light,
And went without the meat, and cursed the bread;
And Richard Cory, one calm summer night,
Went home and put a bullet through his head.”

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Edwin Arlington Robinson

Children of the Night (1910).

“Oh for a poet - for a beacon bright”

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Opening line of Sonnet Children of the Night 1897 edition kindle ebook ASIN B004UJKLY2

“A thousand golden sheaves were lying there,
Shining and still, but not for long to stay—
As if a thousand girls with golden hair
Might rise from where they slept and go away.”

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The Sheaves (1950).

“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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Edwin Arlington Robinson

The Man against the Sky (1950).

“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.”

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Edwin Arlington Robinson

Cassandra (1950).

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