Edna St. Vincent Millay

Edna St. Vincent Millay

"Tis not love's going hurts my days but that it went in little ways."
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"Tis not love's going hurts my days but that it went in little ways."
Edna St. Vincent Millay
"Where you used to be there is a hole in the world which I find myself constantly walking around in the daytime and falling into at night. I miss you like hell."
Edna St. Vincent Millay
"My candle burns at both ends It will not last the night But ah my foes and oh my friends - It gives a lovely light."
Edna St. Vincent Millay
"I love humanity but I hate people."
Edna St. Vincent Millay
"It is not true that life is one damn thing after another- it's one damn thing over and over."
Edna St. Vincent Millay
"With him for a sire and her for a dam What should I be but just what I am?"
Edna St. Vincent Millay
"My heart is warm with the friends I make And better friends I'll not be knowing Yet there isn't a train I wouldn't take No matter where it's going."
Edna St. Vincent Millay
"Strange how few After all's said and done the things that are Of moment."
Edna St. Vincent Millay
"And all the loveliest things there be Come simply so it seems to me."
Edna St. Vincent Millay
"Time Does Not Bring Relief Time does not bring relief; you all have lied Who told me time would ease me of my pain! I miss him in the weeping of the rain; I want him at the shrinking of the tide; The old snows melt from every mountain-side, And last year’s leaves are smoke in every lane; But last year’s bitter loving must remain Heaped on my heart, and my old thoughts abide. There are a hundred places where I fear To go,—so with his memory they brim. And entering with relief some quiet place Where never fell his foot or shone his face I say, There is no memory of him here! And so stand stricken, so remembering him."
Edna St. Vincent Millay Collected Poems
"My candle burns at both ends;It will not last the night;But ah, my foes, and oh, my friends—It gives a lovely light!"
Edna St. Vincent Millay A Few Figs from Thistles
"Searching my heart for its true sorrow, This is the thing I find to be: That I am weary of words and people, Sick of the city, wanting the sea."
Edna St. Vincent Millay
"I will be the gladdest thing under the sun! I will touch a hundred flowers and not pick one."
Edna St. Vincent Millay
"You see, I am a poet, and not quite right in the head, darling. It’s only that."
Edna St. Vincent Millay
"Into each dance must be packed the panic and ecstasy of her last moment of life, for underneath was death."
Edna St. Vincent Millay
"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."
Edna St. Vincent Millay
"It is impossible for me to be an Anarchist, for I do not believe in the essential goodness of man. The world, the physical world, that was once all in all to me, has at moments such as these no road through a wood, no stretch of shore, that can bring me comfort. The beauty of these things can no longer at such moments make up to me at all for the ugliness of man, his cruelty, his greed, his lying face."
Edna St. Vincent Millay
"I would I were alive again to kiss the fingers of the rain."
Edna St. Vincent Millay
"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
"“I know I am but summer to your heart, and not the full four seasons of the year.”"
Edna St. Vincent Millay
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