Edna St. Vincent Millay Quotes

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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.

  Edna St. Vincent Millay

  Mistake, Learning, Advice

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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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• Life is a quest and love a quarrel

  Edna St. Vincent Millay

  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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• 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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• 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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• 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.

  Edna St. Vincent Millay

  I Miss You, Missing You, Broken Heart

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

  Edna St. Vincent Millay

  Funny, Life, Existence

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

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

  Edna St. Vincent Millay

  Happiness, Despair, Bread

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

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

  Edna St. Vincent Millay

  God, Sky, Two

  "Renascence" l. 207 (1917)

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• You are loved. If so, what else matters?

  Edna St. Vincent Millay

  Matter, Ifs

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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.

  Edna St. Vincent Millay

  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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• Beauty is whatever gives joy.

  Edna St. Vincent Millay

  Life, Beauty, Giving

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• Please give me some good advice in your next letter. I promise not to follow it.

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  Bad Ass, Giving, Advice

  Edna St. Vincent Millay (1952). “Letters”

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• I love humanity but I hate people.

  Edna St. Vincent Millay

  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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• This book, when I am dead, will be A little faint perfume of me. People who knew me well will say, She really used to think that way.

  Edna St. Vincent Millay

  Book, Thinking, People

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

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• Stranger, pause and look; From the dust of ages Lift this little book, Turn the tattered pages, Read me, do not let me die! Search the fading letters finding Steadfast in the broken binding All that once was I!

  Edna St. Vincent Millay

  Book, Dust, Broken

  Edna St Vincent, Edna St. Vincent Millay (2013). “The Edna St. Vincent Millay Collection”, p.166, eBookIt.com

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• Beauty never slumbers; All is in her name; But the rose remembers The dust from which it came.

  Edna St. Vincent Millay

  Beauty, Beautiful, Dust

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

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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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• The longest absence is less perilous to love than the terrible trials of incessant proximity.

  Edna St. Vincent Millay

  Inspirational, Trials, Absence

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• O world, I cannot hold thee close enough!

  Edna St. Vincent Millay

  World, Enough, Thee

  Edna St. Vincent Millay (2013). “Early Poems”, p.17, Courier Corporation

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• What should I be but just what I am?

  Edna St. Vincent Millay

  Should, Should I

  Edna St. Vincent Millay (1921). “A Few Figs from Thistles”, p.8, Library of Alexandria

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• They say when you are missing someone that they are probably feeling the same, but I don't think it's possible for you to miss me as much as I'm missing you right now

  Edna St. Vincent Millay

  Love, Sad, I Miss You

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• What lips my lips have kissed, and where, and why, I have forgotten, and what arms have lain Under my head till morning, but the rain Is full of ghosts tonight, that tap and sigh Upon the glass and listen for reply, And in my heart there stirs a quiet pain For unremembered lads that not again Will turn to me at midnight with a cry. Thus in the winter stands the lonely tree, Nor knows what birds have vanished one by one, Yet knows its boughs more silent than before: I cannot say what loves have come and gone, I only know that summer sang in me A little while, that in me sings no more.

  Edna St. Vincent Millay

  Summer, Lonely, Morning

  Harp-Weaver and Other Poems (1923) sonnet 19

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