Edna St. Vincent Millay Quotes - Page 6

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• I had a little sorrow, Born of a little sin.

  Edna St. Vincent Millay

  Sorrow, Littles, Sin

  Edna St. Vincent Millay (2014). “Millay: Poems”, p.76, Everyman's Library

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• On and on eternally
  Shall your altered fluid run,
  Bud and bloom and go to seed;
  But your singing days are done

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  Running, Singing, Bud

  Edna St Vincent, Edna St. Vincent Millay (2013). “The Edna St. Vincent Millay Collection”, p.187, eBookIt.com

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• When I can make Of ten small words a rope to hang the world! "I had you and I have you now no more.

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  Rope, World, Small Words

  Edna St Vincent, Edna St. Vincent Millay (2013). “The Edna St. Vincent Millay Collection”, p.125, eBookIt.com

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• But you were something more than young and sweet And fair, - and the long year remembers you.

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  Sweet, Remembers You, Years

  Edna St. Vincent Millay (2013). “Early Poems”, p.26, Courier Corporation

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• Summer set lip to earth's bosom bare, And left the flushed print in a poppy there. I will touch a hundred flowers And not pick one.

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  Summer, Flower, Earth

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• What the customer demands is last year's model, cheaper. To find out what the customer needs you have to understand what the customer is doing as well as he understands it. Then you build what he needs and you educate him to the fact that he needs it.

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  Business, Years, Needs

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• Blessed be Death, that cuts in marble What would have sunk to dust!

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  Death, Blessed, Cutting

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

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• A grave is such a quiet place.

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  Quiet, Graves, Quiet Place

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

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• Let us not forget such words, and all they mean, as hatred, bitterness, and rancor greed, intolerance, bigotry; let us renew our faith and pledge to man, his right to be himself and free.

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  Hate, Mean, Equality

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• Lord I do fear / Thou'st made the world too beautiful this year.

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  Beautiful, Years, World

  1917 God's World.

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• Life has no friend.

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  Life, No Friends

  Edna St. Vincent Millay (2003). “Edna St. Vincent Millay: Selected Poems”, p.147, Library of America

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• I have loved badly, loved the great Too soon, withdrawn my words too late; And eaten in an echoing hall Alone and from a chipped plate The words that I withdrew too late.

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  Regret, Too Late, All Alone

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• Earth does not understand her child,
  Who from the loud gregarious town
  Returns, depleted and defiled,
  To the still woods, to fling him down.

  Edna St. Vincent Millay

  Children, Doe, Earth

  Edna St. Vincent Millay (1934). “Wine from these grapes”

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• Guess I'll weep awhile. Guess I won't, I mean.

  Edna St. Vincent Millay

  Mean

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• We were so wholly one I had not thought That we could die apart. I had not thought That I could move,—and you be stiff and still! That I could speak,—and you perforce be dumb! I think our heart-strings were, like warp and woof In some firm fabric, woven in and out; Your golden filaments in fair design Across my duller fibre.

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  Moving, Heart, Thinking

  Edna St. Vincent Millay (2007). “The Collected Poetry of Edna St. Vincent Millay”, p.25, Filiquarian Publishing, LLC.

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• Childhood is not from birth to a certain age and at a certain age. The child is grown, and puts away childish things. Childhood is the kingdom where nobody dies.

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  Children, Childhood, Age

  Wine from these Grapes (1934) "Childhood is the Kingdom where Nobody dies"

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• But she was not made for any man, and she will never be all mine.

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  Men, Made, Mines

  Edna St. Vincent Millay, “Witch-Wife”

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• Sweet love, sweet thorn, when lightly to my heart. I took your thrust, whereby I since am slain, And I lie disheveled in the grass apart, A sodden thing bedrenched by tears and rain.

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  Breakup, Sweet, Lying

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

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• It's not love's going hurts my days
  But that it went in little ways.

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  Friendship, Broken Heart, Hurt

  Edna St. Vincent Millay, “The Spring And The Fall”

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• If ever I said in grief or pride, I'd tired of honest things, I lied.

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  Truth, Honesty, Grief

  Edna St. Vincent Millay, “The Goose-Girl”

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• Progress-progress is the dirtiest word in the language-who ever told us- And made us believe it-that to take a step forward was necessarily, was always A good idea?

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  Believe, Ideas, Progress

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• 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

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  Lonely, Winter, Bird

  1923 Harp-Weaver and Other Poems,'Sonnet19: What lips my lips have kissed'.

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• It's little I know what's in my heart,What's in my mind it's little I know,But there's that in me must up and start,And it's little I care where my feet go.

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  Heart, Feet, Mind

  Edna St. Vincent Millay, Frances Schoonmaker (1999). “Edna St. Vincent Millay”, p.25, Sterling Publishing Company, Inc.

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• I am not at all in favor of hard work for its own sake; many people who work very hard indeed produce terrible things, and should most certainly not be encouraged.

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  Work, People, Favors

  Edna St. Vincent Millay (1972). “Letters of Edna St. Vincent Millay”

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• That is my being, the madness of an unaccustomed mood.

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  Madness, Mood

  Edna St Vincent, Edna St. Vincent Millay (2013). “The Edna St. Vincent Millay Collection”, p.183, eBookIt.com

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