Edna St. Vincent Millay Quotes

• Love is not all; it is not meat nor drink.

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• Euclid alone Has looked on Beauty bare. Fortunate they Who, though once only and then but far away, Have heard her massive sandal set on stone.

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• I only know that summer sang in me A little while, that in me sings no more.

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• Thus in the winter stands the lonely tree, Nor knows what birds have vanished one by one, Yet knows its boughs more silent than before.

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• What lips my lips have kissed, and where, and why, I have forgotten, and what arms have lain Under my head till morning; but the rain Is full of ghosts tonight, that tap and sigh Upon the glass and listen for reply.

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• After all, my erstwhile dear, My no longer cherished, Need we say it was not love, Now that love is perished?

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• Death devours all lovely things; Lesbia with her sparrow Shares the darkness-presently Every bed is narrow.

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• Safe upon solid rock the ugly houses stand: Come and see my shining palace built upon the sand.

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• World, world, I cannot get thee close enough! Long have I known a glory in it all, But never knew like this; Here such a pattern is As stretcheth me apart. Lord, I do fear Thou’st made the world too beautiful this year: My soul is all but out of me—let fall No burning leaf; prithee, let no bird call.

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• Into the darkness they go, the wise and the lovely.

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• I have loved badly, loved the great too soon, withdrawn my words too late.

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• All the good i know was taught me out of two gray eyes a long time ago.

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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.

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• 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.

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• 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.

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

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

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• Set the foot down with distrust on the crust of the world – it is thin.

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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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• Not truth, but faith, it is that keeps the world alive.

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Edna St. Vincent Millay (36)

Birth:	22nd February, 1892
Death:	19th October, 1950
Nationality:	American
Profession:	Poet

About

Edna St. Vincent Millay was an American lyrical poet and playwright. She received the Pulitzer Prize for Poetry in 1923, the third woman to win the award for poetry, and was also known for her feminist activism and her many love affairs. She used the pseudonym Nancy Boyd for her prose work. The poet Richard Wilbur asserted, "She wrote some of the best sonnets of the century."

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