Edna St. Vincent Millay Quotes

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• 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.

  Edna St. Vincent Millay

  Mistake, Learning, Advice

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• 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

  Love, Night, Light

  A Few Figs from Thistles "First Fig" l. 1 (1920)

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• When you publish something, it is very much as if you pulled your pants down in public. If what you have written is good, nobody can hurt you; if what you have written is bad, nobody can help you.

  Edna St. Vincent Millay

  Hurt, Pants, Helping

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• Beauty is whatever gives joy.

  Edna St. Vincent Millay

  Life, Beauty, Giving

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• Pour away despair and rinse the cup. Eat happiness like bread.

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  Happiness, Despair, Bread

  Edna St. Vincent Millay (1956). “Collected Poems”, HarperCollins Publishers

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• Life must go on; I forget just why.

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  Grief, Goes On, Forget

  Edna St Vincent, Edna St. Vincent Millay (2013). “The Edna St. Vincent Millay Collection”, p.176, eBookIt.com

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• Strange how few, After alls said and done, the things that are Of moment.

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  Done, Strange, Moments

  Edna St Vincent, Edna St. Vincent Millay (2013). “The Edna St. Vincent Millay Collection”, p.125, eBookIt.com

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• I will be the gladdest thing under the sun! I will touch a hundred flowers and not pick one.

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  Nature, Flower, Blooming

  Edna St Vincent, Edna St. Vincent Millay (2013). “The Edna St. Vincent Millay Collection”, p.133, eBookIt.com

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• 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 Miss You, Missing You, Broken Heart

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• 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!

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  Pain, Memories, Rain

  Edna St. Vincent Millay (2014). “Millay: Poems”, p.56, Everyman's Library

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• It's not true that life is one damn thing after another; it is one damn thing over and over.

  Edna St. Vincent Millay

  Funny, Life, Existence

  Letter to Arthur Davison Ficke, 24 Oct. 1930 See Modern Proverbs 52

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

  Edna St. Vincent Millay

  God, Sky, Two

  "Renascence" l. 207 (1917)

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• Life is a quest and love a quarrel

  Edna St. Vincent Millay

  Life, Inspirational Love, And Love

  Edna St Vincent, Edna St. Vincent Millay (2013). “The Edna St. Vincent Millay Collection”, p.159, eBookIt.com

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• 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

  Beautiful, Witty, Intelligent

  Buck in the Snow (1928) "Dirge Without Music"

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• Now the autumn shudders
  In the rose's root.
  Far and wide the ladders
  Lean among the fruit.
  Now the autumn clambers
  Up the trellised frame,
  And the rose remembers
  The dust from which it came.
  Brighter than the blossom
  On the rose's bough
  Sits the wizened orange,
  Bitter berry now;
  Beauty never slumbers;
  All is in her name;
  But the rose remembers
  The dust from which it came.

  Edna St. Vincent Millay

  Autumn, Dust, Names

  Edna St. Vincent Millay (2003). “Edna St. Vincent Millay: Selected Poems”, p.68, Library of America

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• You are loved. If so, what else matters?

  Edna St. Vincent Millay

  Matter, Ifs

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• 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

  Heart, Knowing, Matter

  Edna St Vincent, Edna St. Vincent Millay (2013). “The Edna St. Vincent Millay Collection”, p.162, eBookIt.com

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• I love humanity but I hate people.

  Edna St. Vincent Millay

  Funny, Inspirational Love, Hate

  Edna St Vincent, Edna St. Vincent Millay (2013). “The Edna St. Vincent Millay Collection”, p.3, eBookIt.com

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• Beautiful as a dandelion-blossom golden in the green grass, this life can be.

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  Beautiful, Green, Golden

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• Please give me some good advice in your next letter. I promise not to follow it.

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  Bad Ass, Giving, Advice

  Edna St. Vincent Millay (1952). “Letters”

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• What should I be but just what I am?

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  Should, Should I

  Edna St. Vincent Millay (1921). “A Few Figs from Thistles”, p.8, Library of Alexandria

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• Not Truth, but Faith it is that keeps the world alive.

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  Inspirational, Truth, Alive

  Edna St Vincent, Edna St. Vincent Millay (2013). “The Edna St. Vincent Millay Collection”, p.127, eBookIt.com

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• Upon this gifted age, in its dark hour falls from the sky a meteoric shower of facts; They lie unquestioned, uncombined. Wisdom enough to leech us of our ill is daily spun, But there exists no loom to weave it into fabric.

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  Educational, Lying, Fall

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• O world, I cannot hold thee close enough!

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  World, Enough, Thee

  Edna St. Vincent Millay (2013). “Early Poems”, p.17, Courier Corporation

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• And what are you that, missing you, I should be kept awake As many nights as there are days With weeping for your sake? And what are you that, missing you, As many days as crawl I should be listening to the wind And looking at the wall? I know a man that’s a braver man And twenty men as kind, And what are you, that you should be The one man in my mind? Yet women’s ways are witless ways, As any sage will tell,— And what am I, that I should love So wisely and so well?

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  Wall, Night, Men

  Edna St. Vincent Millay (2003). “Edna St. Vincent Millay: Selected Poems”, p.55, Library of America

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