Robinson

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    Poets and kings are but the clerks of Time,
    Tiering the same dull webs of discontent,
    Clipping the same sad alnage of the years.
    —Edwin Arlington Robinson (1869–1935)

    I have lived in both worlds. And I think I prefer, to the indifferent, haphazard, money- mad hurry of the Outside World, that of my world; that sympathy and understanding grown shadowy since I have been away from it so long, still is more real to me than the world I am in now. Not only the spangles and the gay trappings made it colorful; there was an inner color that warmed the soul. And that I miss.
    —Josephine Demott Robinson (1865–1948)

    The American Dream, the idea of the happy ending, is an avoidance of responsibility and commitment.
    —Jill Robinson (b. 1936)