Children of the night Quotes

“We cannot crown ourselves with everything Nor can we coax the Fates for us to quarrel:
No matter what we are, or what we sing,
Time finds a withered leaf in every laurel.”
― Edwin Arlington Robinson, Children of the night

“Still through the dusk of dead, blank-legended,
And unremunerative years we search
To get where life begins, and still we groan
Because we do not find the living spark
Where no spark ever was; and thus we die,
Still searching, like poor old astronomers
Who totter off to bed and go to sleep,
To dream of untriangulated stars.”
― Edwin Arlington Robinson, Children of the night