Edna St. Vincent Millay quotes - page 2

I will be the gladdest thing under the sun! I will touch a hundred flowers and not pick one. (Edna St. Vincent Millay)
The soul can split the sky in two and let the face of God shine through. View quote
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You are loved. If so, what else matters? View quote
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Please give me some good advice in your next letter. I promise not to follow it. View quote
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Beauty is whatever gives joy. View quote
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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. View quote
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There is no shelter in you anywhere. View quote
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Night falls fast. Today is in the past. View quote
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But you, you foolish girl, you have gone home to a leaky castle across the sea to lie awake in linen smelling of lavender, and hear the nightingale, and long for me. View quote
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Into the darkness they go, the wise and the lovely. View quote
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I dread no more the first white in my hair, Or even age itself, the easy shoe, The cane, the wrinkled hands, the special chair: Time, doing this to me, may alter too My anguish, into something I can bear. (Edna St. Vincent Millay)
You see, I am a poet, and not quite right in the head, darling. It's only that. View quote
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The first rose on my rose-tree Budded, bloomed, and shattered, During sad days when to me Nothing mattered. Grief or grief has drained me clean; Still it seems a pity No one saw,-it must have been Very pretty. View quote
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I would blossom if I were a rose. View quote
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I will come back to you, I swear I will; And you will know me still. I shall be only a little taller Than when I went. View quote
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I do not think there is a woman in whom the roots of passion shoot deeper than in me. View quote
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If I could have two things in one: the peace of the grave, and the light of the sun. View quote
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No one but Night, with tears on her dark face, watches beside me in this windy place. View quote
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And her voice is a string of colored beads, Or steps leading into the sea. View quote
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A Poem from Edna St. Vincent Millay: Grown-up Was it for this I uttered prayers, And sobbed and cursed and kicked the stairs, That now, domestic as a plate, I should retire at half-past eight? View quote
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I know, but I do not approve. And I am not resigned. (Edna St. Vincent Millay)
That which has quelled me, lives with me, Accomplice in catastrophe. View quote
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The only people I really hate are servants. They're not really human beings at all. View quote
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What should I be but just what I am? View quote
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Pity me that the heart is slow to learn What the swift mind beholds at every turn. View quote
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