Edna St. Vincent Millay Quotes

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My candle burns at both ends; it will not last the night; but ah, my foes, and oh, my friends - it gives a lovely light!

Edna St. Vincent Millay

Love, Night, Light

A Few Figs from Thistles "First Fig" l. 1 (1920)

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I am glad that I paid so little attention to good advice; had I abided by it I might have been saved from some of my most valuable mistakes.

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Mistake, Learning, Advice

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Life must go on; I forget just why.

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Grief, Goes On, Forget

Edna St Vincent, Edna St. Vincent Millay (2013). “The Edna St. Vincent Millay Collection”, p.176, eBookIt.com

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Pour away despair and rinse the cup. Eat happiness like bread.

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Happiness, Despair, Bread

Edna St. Vincent Millay (1956). “Collected Poems”, HarperCollins Publishers

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Beauty is whatever gives joy.

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Life, Beauty, Giving

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Although we sometimes did without a few of life's necessities, we rarely lacked for its luxuries.

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Luxury, Sometimes

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Where you used to be, there is a hole in the world, which I find myself constantly walking around in the daytime, and falling in at night. I miss you like hell.

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I Miss You, Missing You, Broken Heart

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When you publish something, it is very much as if you pulled your pants down in public. If what you have written is good, nobody can hurt you; if what you have written is bad, nobody can help you.

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Hurt, Pants, Helping

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It's not true that life is one damn thing after another; it is one damn thing over and over.

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Funny, Life, Existence

Letter to Arthur Davison Ficke, 24 Oct. 1930 See Modern Proverbs 52

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I will be the gladdest thing under the sun! I will touch a hundred flowers and not pick one.

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Nature, Flower, Blooming

Edna St Vincent, Edna St. Vincent Millay (2013). “The Edna St. Vincent Millay Collection”, p.133, eBookIt.com

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Gently they go, the beautiful, the tender, the kind; Quietly they go, the intelligent, the witty, the brave. I know. But I do not approve. And I am not resigned.

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Beautiful, Witty, Intelligent

Buck in the Snow (1928) "Dirge Without Music"

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The soul can split the sky in two and let the face of God shine through.

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God, Sky, Two

"Renascence" l. 207 (1917)

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Need we say it was not love, Now that love is perished?

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Love, Love Is, Needs

'Passer Mortuus Est' (1921)

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The heart grows weary after a little Of what it loved for a little while.

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Heart, Littles, Constancy

Edna St. Vincent Millay (1956). “Collected Poems”, HarperCollins Publishers

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You are loved. If so, what else matters?

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Matter, Ifs

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Life is a quest and love a quarrel

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Life, Inspirational Love, And Love

Edna St Vincent, Edna St. Vincent Millay (2013). “The Edna St. Vincent Millay Collection”, p.159, eBookIt.com

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Now the autumn shudders
In the rose's root.
Far and wide the ladders
Lean among the fruit.
Now the autumn clambers
Up the trellised frame,
And the rose remembers
The dust from which it came.
Brighter than the blossom
On the rose's bough
Sits the wizened orange,
Bitter berry now;
Beauty never slumbers;
All is in her name;
But the rose remembers
The dust from which it came.

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Autumn, Dust, Names

Edna St. Vincent Millay (2003). “Edna St. Vincent Millay: Selected Poems”, p.68, Library of America

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My heart is warm with the friends I make, And better friends I'll not be knowing, Yet there isn't a train I wouldn't take, No matter where it's going.

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Heart, Knowing, Matter

Edna St Vincent, Edna St. Vincent Millay (2013). “The Edna St. Vincent Millay Collection”, p.162, eBookIt.com

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I love humanity but I hate people.

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Funny, Inspirational Love, Hate

Edna St Vincent, Edna St. Vincent Millay (2013). “The Edna St. Vincent Millay Collection”, p.3, eBookIt.com

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The world stands out on either side, No wider than the heart is wide.

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Heart, World, Sides

Edna St Vincent, Edna St. Vincent Millay (2013). “The Edna St. Vincent Millay Collection”, p.121, eBookIt.com

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I am waylaid by beauty.

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Beauty

Edna St Vincent, Edna St. Vincent Millay (2013). “The Edna St. Vincent Millay Collection”, p.162, eBookIt.com

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There is no shelter in you anywhere.

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Shelter

Edna St. Vincent Millay (1998). “Early Poems”, p.165, Penguin

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God, I can push the grass apart and lay my finger on Thy heart.

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God, Heart, Fingers

Edna St Vincent, Edna St. Vincent Millay (2013). “The Edna St. Vincent Millay Collection”, p.121, eBookIt.com

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I would I were alive again To kiss the fingers of the rain, To drink into my eyes the shine Of every slanting silver line, To catch the freshened, fragrant breeze From drenched and dripping apple-trees. For soon the shower will be done, And then the broad face of the sun Will laugh above the rain-soaked earth Until the world with answering mirth Shakes joyously, and each round drop Rolls twinkling, from its grass-blade top.

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Rain, Eye, Kissing

Edna St. Vincent Millay (2013). “Early Poems”, p.6, Courier Corporation

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You see, I am a poet, and not quite right in the head, darling. It’s only that.

Edna St. Vincent Millay

Poet, Darling

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Born: February 22, 1892
Died: October 19, 1950
Occupation: Poet
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