Edna St. Vincent Millay Quotes About Love

Quotes about: Love

• 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)

• Love is not all: it is not meat nor drink Nor slumber nor a roof against the rain; Nor yet a floating spar to men that sink.

  Edna St. Vincent Millay

  Love, Rain, Men

  "Love Is Not All" l. 1 (1931)

• They say when you are missing someone that they are probably feeling the same, but I don't think it's possible for you to miss me as much as I'm missing you right now

  Edna St. Vincent Millay

  Love, Sad, I Miss You

• You wrote me a beautiful letter, I wonder if you meant it to be as beautiful as it was. I think you did; for somehow I know that your feeling for me, however slight it is, is of the nature of love... When you tell me to come, I will come, by the next train, just as I am. This is not meekness, be assured; I do not come naturally by meekness; know that it is a proud surrender to You.

  Edna St. Vincent Millay

  Love, Beautiful, Dream

• 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

  Love, Funny, Dog

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

• If I love you Wednesday, What is that to you? I do not love you Thursday - so much is true.

  Edna St. Vincent Millay

  Love, Thursday, Wednesday

  Edna St Vincent, Edna St. Vincent Millay (2013). “The Edna St. Vincent Millay Collection”, p.30, eBookIt.com

• He that would eat of love must eat it where it hangs.

  Edna St. Vincent Millay

  Love

  Edna St. Vincent Millay (2003). “Edna St. Vincent Millay: Selected Poems”, p.75, Library of America

• Need we say it was not love, Now that love is perished?

  Edna St. Vincent Millay

  Love, Love Is, Needs

  'Passer Mortuus Est' (1921)

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