Edna St. Vincent Millay Quotes

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

  Edna St. Vincent Millay

  Topics in Wisdom

  Tags in Poetry, Darkness

• Beauty is whatever gives joy.

  Edna St. Vincent Millay

  Topics in Beauty

• World, world, I cannot get thee close enough! Long have I known a glory in it all, But never knew like this; Here such a pattern is As stretcheth me apart. Lord, I do fear Thou’st made the world too beautiful this year: My soul is all but out of me—let fall No burning leaf; prithee, let no bird call.

  Edna St. Vincent Millay

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in World

• 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

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in World, Loss

• Death devours all lovely things; Lesbia with her sparrow Shares the darkness-presently Every bed is narrow.

  Edna St. Vincent Millay

  Topics in Death

• 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.

  Edna St. Vincent Millay

  Topics in Uncategorized

• 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.

  Edna St. Vincent Millay

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Winter

• I only know that summer sang in me A little while, that in me sings no more.

  Edna St. Vincent Millay

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Summer

• Euclid alone Has looked on Beauty bare. Fortunate they Who, though once only and then but far away, Have heard her massive sandal set on stone.

  Edna St. Vincent Millay

  Topics in Beauty

• Love is not all; it is not meat nor drink.

  Edna St. Vincent Millay

  Topics in Love

• After all, my erstwhile dear, My no longer cherished, Need we say it was not love, Now that love is perished?

  Edna St. Vincent Millay

  Topics in Uncategorized

• Safe upon solid rock the ugly houses stand: Come and see my shining palace built upon the sand.

  Edna St. Vincent Millay

  Topics in Uncategorized

• Music my rampart, and my only one.

  Edna St. Vincent Millay

  Topics in Inspirational

  Tags in Music, Freedom

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

  Edna St. Vincent Millay

  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?

  Edna St. Vincent Millay

  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.

  Edna St. Vincent Millay

  Topics in Love

  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.

  Edna St. Vincent Millay

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Good, Time

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

  Edna St. Vincent Millay

  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.

  Edna St. Vincent Millay

  Topics in Life

  Tags in Busyness, Fame

Edna St. Vincent Millay (36)

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

About

Edna St. Vincent Millay was an American lyrical poet and playwright. She received the Pulitzer Prize for Poetry in 1923, the third woman to win the award for poetry, and was also known for her feminist activism and her many love affairs. She used the pseudonym Nancy Boyd for her prose work. The poet Richard Wilbur asserted, "She wrote some of the best sonnets of the century."

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