Edna St. Vincent Millay Quotes
An American lyrical poet and playwright and the first woman to receive the Pulitzer Prize for Poetry.
(1892 - 1950)
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'Tis not love's going hurts my days, but that it went in little ways.
[Love]
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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.
[Writers And Writing]
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After all, my erstwhile dear, my no longer cherished, need we say it was no love, just because it perished?
[Love]
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And all the loveliest things there be Come simply, so it seems to me.
[Beauty]
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And if I loved you Wednesday, well, what is that to you? I do not love you Thursday - so much is true.
[Love]
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April, Comes like an idiot, babbling, and strewing flowers.
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Beauty is whatever gives joy.
[Beauty]
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Childhood is the kingdom where nobody dies. Nobody that matters, that is.
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God, I can push the grass apart and lay my finger on Thy heart.
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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.
[Attention]
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I love humanity but I hate people.
[Life]
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It is not true that life is one damn thing after another- it's one damn thing over and over.
[Life]
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It's not true that life is one damn thing after another; it's one damn thing over and over.
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Music my rampart, and my only one.
[Music]
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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.
[Life]
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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.
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Not truth, but faith, it is that keeps the world alive.
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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.
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Please give me some good advice in your next letter. I promise not to follow it.
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Set the foot down with distrust on the crust of the world - it is thin.
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