And he whose soul is flat -- the sky Will cave in on him by and by. — Edna St. Vincent Millay Caves Copy Share Image
A person who publishes a book appears willfully in public eye with his pants down. — Edna St. Vincent Millay Book Copy Share Image
If I could have two things in one: the peace of the grave, and the light of the sun. — Edna St. Vincent Millay Copy Share Image
I screamed, and--lo!--Infinity Came down and settled over me — Edna St. Vincent Millay Copy Share Image
April comes like an idiot, babbling and strewing flowers. — Edna St. Vincent Millay April Copy Share Image
Here's a song was never sung: Growing old is dying young. — Edna St. Vincent Millay Age Copy Share Image
Blessed be Death, that cuts in marble What would have sunk to dust! — Edna St. Vincent Millay Blessed Copy Share Image
And her voice is a string of colored beads, Or steps leading into the sea. — Edna St. Vincent Millay Copy Share Image
But you, you foolish girl, you have gone home to a leaky castle across the sea to lie awake in linen smelling… — Edna St. Vincent Millay Copy Share Image
Progress-progress is the dirtiest word in the language-who ever told us- And made us believe it-that to take a step forward was… — Edna St. Vincent Millay Copy Share Image
I find that I never lose Bach. I don't know why I have always loved him so. Except that he is so… — Edna St. Vincent Millay Copy Share Image
“Searching my heart for its true sorrow, This is the thing I find to be: That I am weary of words and… — Edna St. Vincent Millay Grief Copy Share Image
It's little I know what's in my heart,What's in my mind it's little I know,But there's that in me must up and… — Edna St. Vincent Millay Care Copy Share Image
Earth does not understand her child, Who from the loud gregarious town Returns, depleted and defiled, To the still woods, to fling… — Edna St. Vincent Millay Children Copy Share Image
All my life, Following Care along the dusty road, Have I looked back on loveliness and sighed … — Edna St. Vincent Millay Care Copy Share Image
Although we sometimes did without a few of life's necessities, we rarely lacked for its luxuries. — Edna St. Vincent Millay Life Copy Share Image
Let us not forget such words, and all they mean, as hatred, bitterness, and rancor greed, intolerance, bigotry; let us renew our… — Edna St. Vincent Millay Bigotry Copy Share Image
“Still must the poet as of old, In barren attic bleak and cold, Starve, freeze, and fashion verses to Such things as… — Edna St. Vincent Millay Beauty Copy Share Image
And must I then, indeed, Pain, live with you all through my life?-sharing my fire, my bed, Sharing-oh, worst of all things!-the… — Edna St. Vincent Millay Copy Share Image
“I shall think of you Whenever I am most happy, whenever I am Most sad, whenever I see a beautiful thing. You… — Edna St. Vincent Millay Flame Copy Share Image
It is high time we found out about this man Cummings. Let us give him every opportunity to show us at once… — Edna St. Vincent Millay Genius Copy Share Image
What the customer demands is last year's model, cheaper. To find out what the customer needs you have to understand what the… — Edna St. Vincent Millay Business Copy Share Image
Should at that moment the full moon Step forth upon the hill, And memories hard to bear at noon, By moonlight harder… — Edna St. Vincent Millay Bears Copy Share Image
“And you as well must die, beloved dust, And all your beauty stand you in no stead; This flawless, vital hand, this… — Edna St. Vincent Millay Beauty Copy Share Image
“If in the moonlight from the silent bough Suddenly with precision speak your name The nightingale, be not assured that now His… — Edna St. Vincent Millay Beauty Copy Share Image
I, being born a woman and distressed By all the needs and notions of my kind, Am urged by your propinquity to… — Edna St. Vincent Millay Bears Copy Share Image
“ Love is Not All Love is not all: it is not meat nor drink Nor slumber nor a roof against the… — Edna St. Vincent Millay Lack of love Copy Share Image
“She had a horror he would die at night. And sometimes when the light began to fade She could not keep from… — Edna St. Vincent Millay Copy Share Image
“I shall forget you presently, my dear (Sonnet IV) " I shall forget you presently, my dear, So make the most of… — Edna St. Vincent Millay Copy Share Image
Euclid alone has looked on Beauty bare. Let all who prate of Beauty hold their peace, And lay them prone upon the… — Edna St. Vincent Millay Copy Share Image
“Now goes under, and I watch it go under, the sun That will not rise again. Today has seen the setting, in… — Edna St. Vincent Millay Darkness Copy Share Image
“Well, I have lost you; and I lost you fairly; In my own way, and with my full consent. Say what you… — Edna St. Vincent Millay Death Copy Share Image
