"Life is the game that must be played" - Edwin Arlington Robinson

Life is the game that must be played

— Edwin Arlington Robinson
Poet and playwright

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Edwin Arlington Robinson was a 19th-century American poet and playwright. Edwin Arlington Robinson was an American poet and playwright. Robinson won the Pulitzer Prize for Poetry on three occasions and was nominated for the Nobel Prize in Literature four times. Read more on Wikipedia →

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