Edna St. Vincent Millay quotes - page 3

Night falls fast. Today is in the past. Blown from the dark hill hither to my door Three flakes, then four Arrive, then many more. (Edna St. Vincent Millay)
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. View quote
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I know I am but summer to your heart, and not the full four seasons of the year. View quote
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The world stands out on either side No wider than the heart is wide. View quote
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And reaching up my hand to try, I screamed to feel it touch the sky. View quote
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Guess I'll weep awhile. Guess I won't, I mean. View quote
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And must I then, indeed, Pain, live with you all through my life?-sharing my fire, my bed, Sharing-oh, worst of all things!-the same head?- And, when I feed myself, feeding you too? View quote
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Cruel of heart, lay down my song. Your reading eyes have done me wrong. Not for you was the pen bitten, And the mind wrung, and the song written. View quote
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I, being born a woman and distressed By all the needs and notions of my kind... View quote
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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. View quote
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Beautiful as a dandelion-blossom, golden in the green grass, This life can be. Common as a dandelion-blossom, beautiful in the clean grass, not beautiful Because common, beautiful because beautiful, Noble because common, because free. (Edna St. Vincent Millay)
Many a bard's untimely death Lends unto his verses breath. View quote
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Not Truth, but Faith it is that keeps the world alive. View quote
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The world stands out on either side No wider than the heart is wide; Above the world is stretched the sky, No higher than the soul is high. The heart can push the sea and land Farther away on either hand; The soul can split the sky in two, And let the face of God shine through. But East and West will pinch the heart That can not keep them pushed apart; And he whose soul is flat-the sky Will cave in on him by and by. View quote
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The young are so old, they are born with their fingers crossed. View quote
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Love is not all: it is not meat nor drink Nor slumber nor a roof against the rain; Nor yet a floating spar to men that sink And rise and sink and rise and sink again; Love can not fill the thickened lung with breath, Nor clean the blood, nor set the fractured bone; Yet many a man is making friends with death Even as I speak, for lack of love alone. View quote
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God, I can push the grass apart and lay my finger on Thy heart. View quote
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We are all ruled in what we do by impulses; and these impulses are so organized that our actions in general serve for our self preservation and that of the race. View quote
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Parrots, tortoises and redwoods live a longer life than men do; Men a longer life than dogs do; Dogs a longer life than love does. View quote
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Lost in Hell,-Persephone, Take her head upon your knee; Say to her, "My dear, my dear, It is not so dreadful here. View quote
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The heart can push the sea and land Farther away on either hand; The soul can split the sky in two, And let the face of God shine through. (Edna St. Vincent Millay)
Yet many a man is making friends with death Even as I speak, for lack of love alone. View quote
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So wanton, light and false, my love, are you, I am most faithless when I most am true. View quote
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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. View quote
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But, sure, the sky is big, I said; Miles and miles above my head. View quote
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