Edwin Arlington Robinson Quotes

It's only when you're alone that you realize where you are. You have nothing to fall back on except your own resources.

So it is necessary that we should learn to be alone.

Solitude, though it may be silent as light, is like light, the mightiest of agencies; for solitude is essential to man. All men come into this world alone and leave it alone.

I paint self-portraits because I am so often alone, because I am the person I know best.

Autobiography begins with a sense of being alone. It is an orphan form.

I had friends but I was spending a great deal of my time alone and for me that was vital because there's an awful lot you learn about yourself when you're alone.

Census figures be damned: If you choose to be alone, you're destined to spend a certain amount of time wondering why.

Life is for each man a solitary cell whose walls are mirrors.

I'm learning a lot about myself being alone, and doing what I'm doing.

I do say all I've ever written about is being alone. And most people take that as, 'Oh, that's so sad.' And I always say, 'No. No, all I ever write about is being alone, and sometimes that's a beautiful, beautiful thing.'

Writing is a tribute to solitude. It is choosing introversion over extroversion, lonely hours/days/weeks/years over fun and sociability.

I spent a huge amount of time by myself. I daydreamed and learned how to be alone and not be lonely.

My EP, 'Room 93,' was all about isolation - it was based on the idea of being in a hotel room and being totally alone with yourself or that other person.

It is easier to sail many thousand miles through cold and storm and cannibals, ina government ship, with five hundred men and boys to assist one, than it is to explore the private sea, the Atlantic and Pacific Ocean of one's being alone.

Some of my poems indicate that I am writing while living alone after a split with a woman, and I've had many splits with women. I need solitude more often when I'm not writing than when I am.

I think I should be here alone to rethink the world - I do. I want these lesser humans gone.

You know you lose a lot of social skills if you're a writer. You spend too long alone. And its forced me to address that.

When the traveler goes alone he gets acquainted with himself.

What a lovely surprise to finally discover how unlonely being alone can be.

What good is sitting all alone in your room?

The time you feel lonely is the time you most need to be by yourself.

It would do the world good if every man would compel himself occasionally to be absolutely alone. Most of the world s progress has come out of such loneliness.

The soul that sees beauty may sometimes walk alone.

A man is never completely alone in this world. At the worst, he has the company of a boy, a youth, and by and by a grown man - the one he used to be.