The power is yours, but not the sight; / You see not upon what you tread; / You have the ages for your guide, / But not the wisdom to be led. -Edwin A. Robinson

 

The power is yours, but not the sight; / You see not upon what you tread; / You have the ages for your guide, / But not the wisdom to be led.


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This quote is just one of 8 total Edwin A. Robinson quotes in our collection. Edwin A. Robinson is known for saying 'The power is yours, but not the sight; / You see not upon what you tread; / You have the ages for your guide, / But not the wisdom to be led.' as well as some of the following quotes.

I don't say what God is, but a name That somehow answers us when we are driven To feel and think how little we have to do With what we are.

Edwin A. Robinson

Love must have wings to fly away from love, and to fly back again.

Edwin A. Robinson

Youth sees too far to see how near it is / To seeing farther.

Edwin A. Robinson

Youth sees too far to see how near it is To seeing farther.

Edwin A. Robinson

He knows much of what men paint themselves would blister in the light of what they are.

Edwin A. Robinson