Edna St. Vincent Millay Quotes

Edna St. Vincent Millay (28)

Birth:	22nd February, 1892
Death:	19th October, 1950
Nationality:	American
Profession:	Poet

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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. Nobody matters, that is.

  Edna St. Vincent Millay

  Topics in Family

• Into the darkness they go, the wise and the lovely.

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  Topics in Wisdom

  Tags in Poetry

• Music my rampart, and my only one.

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  Topics in Inspirational

• A person who publishes a book appears willfully in public with his pants down.

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  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Writers And Writing, Writing

• Down, down, down into the darkness of the grave
  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

  Edna St. Vincent Millay

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Poetry
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  After all, my erstwhile dear, my no longer cherished, need we say it was no love, just because it perished?

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  Topics in Love

  Tags in Longer, Just
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  I have loved badly, loved the great too soon, withdrawn my words too late.

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  Tags in Words, Great
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  All the good i know was taught me out of two gray eyes a long time ago.

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  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Good, Time

• April comes like an idiot, babbling and strewing flowers.

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  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Spring

• My candle burns at both its ends;
  It will not last the night;
  But oh, my foes, and oh, my friends –
  It gives a lovely light.

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  Topics in Life

  Tags in Busyness, Fame

• 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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  Topics in Advice, Mistake

  Tags in Attention

• Life is a quest and love a quarrel …

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  Topics in Life, Love

  Tags in Argument

• I love humanity but I hate people.

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  Topics in Humanity, Love

  Tags in Hatred

• 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

• 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.

  Edna St. Vincent Millay

• 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.

  Edna St. Vincent Millay

• The young are so old, they are born with their fingers crossed.

  Edna St. Vincent Millay

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

  Edna St. Vincent Millay

• Set the foot down with distrust on the crust of the world – it is thin.

  Edna St. Vincent Millay

• 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.

  Edna St. Vincent Millay