--- title: "7 Dust Quotes By Edna St. Vincent Millay" description: "7 Dust quotes by Edna St. Vincent Millay. Plus more from Edna St. Vincent Millay and more Dust sayings from other authors." image: "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/527/edna-st-vincent-millay-1291_dust_she-is-happy-where-she-lies-with-the-dus_89987.jpg" --- > [She is happy where she lies With the dust upon her eyes.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/edna-st-vincent-millay/she-is-happy-where-she-lies-with-the-dust-upon-her-eyes/) [Edna St. Vincent Millay](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/edna-st-vincent-millay/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/527/edna-st-vincent-millay-1291_dust_she-is-happy-where-she-lies-with-the-dus_89987.jpg) > [“And you as well must die, beloved dust, And all your beauty stand you in no stead; This flawless, vital hand, this…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/edna-st-vincent-millay/and-you-as-well-must-die-beloved-dust-and-all-your-beauty-stand-you/) [Edna St. Vincent Millay](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/edna-st-vincent-millay/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/1ab/edna-st-vincent-millay-1291_beauty_and-you-as-well-must-die-beloved-dust-an_110940.jpg) > [Now the autumn shudders In the rose's root. Far and wide the ladders Lean among the fruit. Now the autumn clambers Up…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/edna-st-vincent-millay/now-the-autumn-shudders-in-the-rose-s-root-far-and-wide-the-ladders/) [Edna St. Vincent Millay](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/edna-st-vincent-millay/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/4e9/edna-st-vincent-millay-1291_autumn_now-the-autumn-shudders-in-the-rose-s-ro_643582.jpg) > [Dust in an urn long since, dispersed and dead Is great Apollo; and the happier he](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/edna-st-vincent-millay/dust-in-an-urn-long-since-dispersed-and-dead-is-great-apollo-and-the/) [Edna St. Vincent Millay](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/edna-st-vincent-millay/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/f3c/edna-st-vincent-millay-1291_apollo_dust-in-an-urn-long-since-dispersed-and_2372063.jpg) > [Beauty never slumbers; All is in her name; But the rose remembers The dust from which it came.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/edna-st-vincent-millay/beauty-never-slumbers-all-is-in-her-name-but-the-rose-remembers-the/) [Edna St. Vincent Millay](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/edna-st-vincent-millay/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/3ea/edna-st-vincent-millay-1291_beautiful_beauty-never-slumbers-all-is-in-her-name_2821136.jpg) > [Blessed be Death, that cuts in marble What would have sunk to dust!](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/edna-st-vincent-millay/blessed-be-death-that-cuts-in-marble-what-would-have-sunk-to-dust/) [Edna St. Vincent Millay](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/edna-st-vincent-millay/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/afe/edna-st-vincent-millay-1291_blessed_blessed-be-death-that-cuts-in-marble-wha_2969612.jpg) > [Stranger, pause and look; From the dust of ages Lift this little book, Turn the tattered pages, Read me, do not let…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/edna-st-vincent-millay/stranger-pause-and-look-from-the-dust-of-ages-lift-this-little-book/) [Edna St. Vincent Millay](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/edna-st-vincent-millay/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/e16/edna-st-vincent-millay-1291_age_stranger-pause-and-look-from-the-dust-of_3135324.jpg) ## Other authors on Dust ## More by Edna St. Vincent Millay > [Into the darkness they go, the wise and the lovely.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/edna-st-vincent-millay/into-the-darkness-they-go-the-wise-and-the-lovely/) [Edna St. Vincent Millay](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/edna-st-vincent-millay/) > [There are a hundred places where I fear To go, --so with his memory they brim! And entering with relief some quiet place Where…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/edna-st-vincent-millay/there-are-a-hundred-places-where-i-fear-to-go-so-with-his-memory-they/) [Edna St. Vincent Millay](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/edna-st-vincent-millay/) > [The first rose on my rose-tree Budded, bloomed, and shattered, During sad days when to me Nothing mattered. Grief or grief has drained me…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/edna-st-vincent-millay/the-first-rose-on-my-rose-tree-budded-bloomed-and-shattered-during/) [Edna St. Vincent Millay](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/edna-st-vincent-millay/) > [A Poem from Edna St. Vincent Millay: Grown-up Was it for this I uttered prayers, And sobbed and cursed and kicked the stairs, That…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/edna-st-vincent-millay/a-poem-from-edna-st-vincent-millay-grown-up-was-it-for-this-i-uttered/) [Edna St. Vincent Millay](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/edna-st-vincent-millay/) > [She is happy where she lies With the dust upon her eyes.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/edna-st-vincent-millay/she-is-happy-where-she-lies-with-the-dust-upon-her-eyes/) [Edna St. Vincent Millay](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/edna-st-vincent-millay/) > [And reaching up my hand to try, I screamed to feel it touch the sky.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/edna-st-vincent-millay/and-reaching-up-my-hand-to-try-i-screamed-to-feel-it-touch-the-sky/) [Edna St. Vincent Millay](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/edna-st-vincent-millay/) > [“And you as well must die, beloved dust, And all your beauty stand you in no stead; This flawless, vital hand, this perfect head,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/edna-st-vincent-millay/and-you-as-well-must-die-beloved-dust-and-all-your-beauty-stand-you/) [Edna St. Vincent Millay](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/edna-st-vincent-millay/) > [Oh, children, growing up to be Adventurers into sophistry, Forbear, forbear to be of those That read the rood to learn the rose.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/edna-st-vincent-millay/oh-children-growing-up-to-be-adventurers-into-sophistry-forbear/) [Edna St. Vincent Millay](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/edna-st-vincent-millay/) > [After the feet of beauty fly my own.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/edna-st-vincent-millay/after-the-feet-of-beauty-fly-my-own/) [Edna St. Vincent Millay](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/edna-st-vincent-millay/) > [Some of us have been thinking and talking too long without doing anything. Poems are perfect; picketing, sometimes, is better.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/edna-st-vincent-millay/some-of-us-have-been-thinking-and-talking-too-long-without-doing/) [Edna St. Vincent Millay](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/edna-st-vincent-millay/) > [“But, sure, the sky is big, I said; Miles and miles above my head; So here upon my back I'll lie And look my…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/edna-st-vincent-millay/but-sure-the-sky-is-big-i-said-miles-and-miles-above-my-head-so-here/) [Edna St. Vincent Millay](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/edna-st-vincent-millay/) > [pity me that the heart is slow to learn what the swift mind beholds at every turn.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/edna-st-vincent-millay/pity-me-that-the-heart-is-slow-to-learn-what-the-swift-mind-beholds/) [Edna St. Vincent Millay](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/edna-st-vincent-millay/) > [Youth, have no pity; leave no farthing here For age to invest in compromise and fear.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/edna-st-vincent-millay/youth-have-no-pity-leave-no-farthing-here-for-age-to-invest-in/) [Edna St. Vincent Millay](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/edna-st-vincent-millay/) > [My god is all gods in one. When I see a beautiful sunset, I worship the god of Nature; when I see a hidden…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/edna-st-vincent-millay/my-god-is-all-gods-in-one-when-i-see-a-beautiful-sunset-i-worship-the/) [Edna St. Vincent Millay](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/edna-st-vincent-millay/) > [“Tea was sucha comfort.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/edna-st-vincent-millay/tea-was-sucha-comfort/) [Edna St. Vincent Millay](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/edna-st-vincent-millay/) ```json { "@context": "https://schema.org", "@graph": [ { "@type": "ItemList", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/dust/edna-st-vincent-millay/#itemlist", "name": "7 Dust Quotes By Edna St. Vincent Millay", "numberOfItems": 7, "itemListElement": [ { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 1, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "She is happy where she lies With the dust upon her eyes.", "creator": { "@type": "Person", "name": "Edna St. Vincent Millay" }, "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/edna-st-vincent-millay/she-is-happy-where-she-lies-with-the-dust-upon-her-eyes/", "image": { "@type": "ImageObject", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/527/edna-st-vincent-millay-1291_dust_she-is-happy-where-she-lies-with-the-dus_89987.jpg", "contentUrl": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/527/edna-st-vincent-millay-1291_dust_she-is-happy-where-she-lies-with-the-dus_89987.jpg", "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/527/edna-st-vincent-millay-1291_dust_she-is-happy-where-she-lies-with-the-dus_89987.jpg", "width": 1080, "height": 1080, "caption": "“She is happy where she lies With the dust upon her eyes.” — Edna St. Vincent Millay", "creditText": "SMS4Smile Quotes", "creator": { "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/#organization" } } } }, { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 2, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "“And you as well must die, beloved dust, And all your beauty stand you in no stead; This flawless, vital hand, this perfect head, This body of flame and steel, before the gust.”", "creator": { "@type": "Person", "name": "Edna St. Vincent Millay" }, "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/edna-st-vincent-millay/and-you-as-well-must-die-beloved-dust-and-all-your-beauty-stand-you/", "image": { "@type": "ImageObject", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/1ab/edna-st-vincent-millay-1291_beauty_and-you-as-well-must-die-beloved-dust-an_110940.jpg", "contentUrl": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/1ab/edna-st-vincent-millay-1291_beauty_and-you-as-well-must-die-beloved-dust-an_110940.jpg", "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/1ab/edna-st-vincent-millay-1291_beauty_and-you-as-well-must-die-beloved-dust-an_110940.jpg", "width": 1080, "height": 1080, "caption": "“And you as well must die, beloved dust, And all your beauty stand you in no stead; This flawless, vital…” — Edna St. Vincent Millay", "creditText": "SMS4Smile Quotes", "creator": { "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/#organization" } } } }, { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 3, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "Now the autumn shudders In the rose's root. Far and wide the ladders Lean among the fruit. Now the autumn clambers Up the trellised frame, And the rose remembers The dust from which it came. Brighter than the blossom On the rose's bough Sits the wizened orange, Bitter berry now; Beauty never slumbers; All is in her name; But the rose remembers The dust from which it came.", "creator": { "@type": "Person", "name": "Edna St. Vincent Millay" }, "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/edna-st-vincent-millay/now-the-autumn-shudders-in-the-rose-s-root-far-and-wide-the-ladders/", "image": { "@type": "ImageObject", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/4e9/edna-st-vincent-millay-1291_autumn_now-the-autumn-shudders-in-the-rose-s-ro_643582.jpg", "contentUrl": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/4e9/edna-st-vincent-millay-1291_autumn_now-the-autumn-shudders-in-the-rose-s-ro_643582.jpg", "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/4e9/edna-st-vincent-millay-1291_autumn_now-the-autumn-shudders-in-the-rose-s-ro_643582.jpg", "width": 1080, "height": 1080, "caption": "“Now the autumn shudders In the rose's root. Far and wide the ladders Lean among the fruit. Now the autumn…” — Edna St. Vincent Millay", "creditText": "SMS4Smile Quotes", "creator": { "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/#organization" } } } }, { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 4, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "Dust in an urn long since, dispersed and dead Is great Apollo; and the happier he", "creator": { "@type": "Person", "name": "Edna St. Vincent Millay" }, "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/edna-st-vincent-millay/dust-in-an-urn-long-since-dispersed-and-dead-is-great-apollo-and-the/", "image": { "@type": "ImageObject", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/f3c/edna-st-vincent-millay-1291_apollo_dust-in-an-urn-long-since-dispersed-and_2372063.jpg", "contentUrl": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/f3c/edna-st-vincent-millay-1291_apollo_dust-in-an-urn-long-since-dispersed-and_2372063.jpg", "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/f3c/edna-st-vincent-millay-1291_apollo_dust-in-an-urn-long-since-dispersed-and_2372063.jpg", "width": 1080, "height": 1080, "caption": "“Dust in an urn long since, dispersed and dead Is great Apollo; and the happier he” — Edna St. Vincent Millay", "creditText": "SMS4Smile Quotes", "creator": { "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/#organization" } } } }, { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 5, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "Beauty never slumbers; All is in her name; But the rose remembers The dust from which it came.", "creator": { "@type": "Person", "name": "Edna St. Vincent Millay" }, "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/edna-st-vincent-millay/beauty-never-slumbers-all-is-in-her-name-but-the-rose-remembers-the/", "image": { "@type": "ImageObject", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/3ea/edna-st-vincent-millay-1291_beautiful_beauty-never-slumbers-all-is-in-her-name_2821136.jpg", "contentUrl": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/3ea/edna-st-vincent-millay-1291_beautiful_beauty-never-slumbers-all-is-in-her-name_2821136.jpg", "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/3ea/edna-st-vincent-millay-1291_beautiful_beauty-never-slumbers-all-is-in-her-name_2821136.jpg", "width": 1080, "height": 1080, "caption": "“Beauty never slumbers; All is in her name; But the rose remembers The dust from which it came.” — Edna St. Vincent Millay", "creditText": "SMS4Smile Quotes", "creator": { "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/#organization" } } } }, { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 6, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "Blessed be Death, that cuts in marble What would have sunk to dust!", "creator": { "@type": "Person", "name": "Edna St. Vincent Millay" }, "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/edna-st-vincent-millay/blessed-be-death-that-cuts-in-marble-what-would-have-sunk-to-dust/", "image": { "@type": "ImageObject", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/afe/edna-st-vincent-millay-1291_blessed_blessed-be-death-that-cuts-in-marble-wha_2969612.jpg", "contentUrl": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/afe/edna-st-vincent-millay-1291_blessed_blessed-be-death-that-cuts-in-marble-wha_2969612.jpg", "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/afe/edna-st-vincent-millay-1291_blessed_blessed-be-death-that-cuts-in-marble-wha_2969612.jpg", "width": 1080, "height": 1080, "caption": "“Blessed be Death, that cuts in marble What would have sunk to dust!” — Edna St. Vincent Millay", "creditText": "SMS4Smile Quotes", "creator": { "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/#organization" } } } }, { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 7, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "Stranger, pause and look; From the dust of ages Lift this little book, Turn the tattered pages, Read me, do not let me die! Search the fading letters finding Steadfast in the broken binding All that once was I!", "creator": { "@type": "Person", "name": "Edna St. Vincent Millay" }, "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/edna-st-vincent-millay/stranger-pause-and-look-from-the-dust-of-ages-lift-this-little-book/", "image": { "@type": "ImageObject", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/e16/edna-st-vincent-millay-1291_age_stranger-pause-and-look-from-the-dust-of_3135324.jpg", "contentUrl": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/e16/edna-st-vincent-millay-1291_age_stranger-pause-and-look-from-the-dust-of_3135324.jpg", "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/e16/edna-st-vincent-millay-1291_age_stranger-pause-and-look-from-the-dust-of_3135324.jpg", "width": 1080, "height": 1080, "caption": "“Stranger, pause and look; From the dust of ages Lift this little book, Turn the tattered pages, Read me, do…” — Edna St. Vincent Millay", "creditText": "SMS4Smile Quotes", "creator": { "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/#organization" } } } } ] }, { "@type": "CollectionPage", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/dust/edna-st-vincent-millay/#webpage", "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/dust/edna-st-vincent-millay/", "name": "Dust Quotes by Edna St. Vincent Millay", "isPartOf": { "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/#website" }, "mainEntity": { "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/dust/edna-st-vincent-millay/#itemlist" }, "primaryImageOfPage": { "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/527/edna-st-vincent-millay-1291_dust_she-is-happy-where-she-lies-with-the-dus_89987.jpg" }, "description": "7 Dust quotes by Edna St. Vincent Millay. Plus more from Edna St. Vincent Millay and more Dust sayings from other authors.", "breadcrumb": { "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/dust/edna-st-vincent-millay/#breadcrumb" } }, { "@type": "BreadcrumbList", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/dust/edna-st-vincent-millay/#breadcrumb", "itemListElement": [ { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 1, "name": "Home", "item": "https://sms4smile.com/" }, { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 2, "name": "Quotes", "item": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/" }, { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 3, "name": "Topics", "item": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/categories/" }, { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 4, "name": "Dust", "item": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/dust/" }, { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 5, "name": "Edna St. Vincent Millay", "item": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/dust/edna-st-vincent-millay/" } ] }, { "@type": "WebSite", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/#website", "name": "SMS4Smile Quotes", "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/", "publisher": { "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/#organization" } }, { "@type": "Organization", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/#organization", "name": "SMS4Smile Quotes", "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/", "logo": { "@type": "ImageObject", "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/wp-content/themes/sq/assets/icons/icon-512.png", "width": 512, "height": 512 } } ] } ```