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Edna St. Vincent Millay Quotes


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Strange how few After all's said and done, the things that are Of moment.
[Experience]

The longest absence is less perilous to love than the terrible trials of incessant proximity.

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

The young are so old, they are born with their fingers crossed.

We are all ruled in what we do by impulses; and these impulses are so organized that our actions in general serve for our self preservation and that of the race.

What the customer demands is last year's model, cheaper. To find out what the customer needs you have to understand what the customer is doing as well as he understands it. Then you build what he needs and you educate him to the fact that he needs it.

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.
[Loneliness]

With him for a sire, and her for a dam What should I be, but just what I am?
[Heredity]


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