Quotation by Edwin Arlington Robinson

I watched him; and the sight was not so fair
As one or two that I have seen elsewhere:
An apparatus not for me to mend—
A wreck, with hell between him and the end.
Edwin Arlington Robinson (1869–1935), U.S. poet. How Annandale Went Out (l. 4–7). . .

Norton Anthology of Modern Poetry, The. Richard Ellmann and Robert O'Clair, eds. (2d ed., 1988) W. W. Norton & Company.
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