Edna St. Vincent Millay Quotes About Books

Quotes about: Books

• A person who publishes a book willfully appears before the populace with his pants down. If it is a good book nothing can hurt him. If it is a bad book nothing can help him.

  Edna St. Vincent Millay

  Hurt, Book, Writing

• This book, when I am dead, will be A little faint perfume of me. People who knew me well will say, She really used to think that way.

  Edna St. Vincent Millay

  Book, Thinking, People

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

• So up I got in anger, And took a book I had, And put a ribbon on my hair To please a passing lad. And, "One thing there's no getting by -- I've been a wicked girl," said I; But if I can't be sorry, why, I might as well be glad!

  Edna St. Vincent Millay

  Girl, Sorry, Book

  Edna St Vincent, Edna St. Vincent Millay (2013). “The Edna St. Vincent Millay Collection”, p.36, eBookIt.com

• Stranger, pause and look; From the dust of ages Lift this little book, Turn the tattered pages, Read me, do not let me die! Search the fading letters finding Steadfast in the broken binding All that once was I!

  Edna St. Vincent Millay

  Book, Dust, Broken

  Edna St Vincent, Edna St. Vincent Millay (2013). “The Edna St. Vincent Millay Collection”, p.166, eBookIt.com

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

  Edna St. Vincent Millay

  Book, Writing, Eye

• Oh, friend, forget not, when you fain would note In me a beauty that was never mine, How first you knew me in a book I wrote, How first you loved me for a written line.

  Edna St. Vincent Millay

  Book, Lines, Firsts

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

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