Edwin Arlington Robinson Quotes

The moment of change is the only poem.

Everything in life that we really accept undergoes a change.

What the caterpillar calls the end of the world the master calls a butterfly.

My life has been about big changes.

All things must change to something new, to something strange.

We are in a period when old questions are settled and the new are not yet brought forward.

Life is change.

At different times in life, I've felt like it's time to say goodbye from some form of myself that's been hanging around for a while - you just feel this urge to move on, like a herd of antelope. They're just standing there in a field eating grass. You feel like that as a person sometimes. Where's it's just time to move on.

The day is ending. It's time for something that was beautiful to turn into something else that is beautiful. Now, Let go.

Everything teaches transition, transference, metamorphosis: therein is human power, in transference, not in creation; & therein is human destiny, not in longevity but in removal. We dive & reappear in new places.

I was once more in a time which the things around me were changing and that is how I wanted it to be for the rest of my days.

Change itself is what fascinates me. I am drawn, as a moth to the flame, by edge situations, by situations of metamorphosis.

Everything is going to change.

To have attained to the human form is a source of joy... What an incomparable bliss it is to undergo these countless transitions.

We're all really happy with what's familiar. But what's inevitable in life is change. That's what life is.

And change isn't destruction. It's just change.

We seek not rest but transformation. We are dancing through each other as doorways.

It is an age of stir and change, a season of new wine and old bottles. Yet, assuredly, in spite of breakages and waste, a wine worth the drinking is all the time being made.

Change is never a loss - it is change only.

It's funny how things change slowly, until the day we realize they've changed completely.

Change is always a little bit strange.

No man ever steps in the same river twice, for it's not the same river and he's not the same man.

Change, when it comes, cracks everything open.

Change is not an event, it's a process.

I want to change a lot.