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Love Quotes by Edna St. Vincent Millay

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Edna St. Vincent Millay paints love as a delicate blossom that the wind can tear, and as a feeling that can come and go on different days. She notes that love may be less harmful when apart than when it presses constantly. Her words also hint that love can be as fleeting as summer.

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

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I am waylaid by beauty.

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I love humanity but I hate people.

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Euclid Alone Has Looked on Beauty Bare.

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Man has never been the same since God died.

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Life has no friend ...

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“The undercurrent of my every thought: To seek you, find you, have you for my own.”

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He that would eat of love must eat it where it hangs.

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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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And all the loveliest things there be come simply, so it seems to me.

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“Tis not love’s going hurts my days, But that it went in little ways”

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Martyred many times must be Who would keep his country free.

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I am not resigned to the shutting away of loving hearts in the hard ground.

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Beauty in all things-no, we cannot hope for that; but some place set apart for it.

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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…

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Love is not all: it is not meat nor drink Nor slumber nor a roof against the rain; Nor yet a floating…

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

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After all my erstwhile dear, my no longer cherished; Need we say it was not love, just because it perished?

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O troubled forms, O early love unfortunate and hard, Time has estranged you into a jewel cold and pure

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The fabric of my faithful love No power shall dim or ravel Whilst I stay here - but oh, my dear, If…

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When I can make Of ten small words a rope to hang the world! "I had you and I have you now…

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If I love you Wednesday, What is that to you? I do not love you Thursday - so much is true.

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This have I known always: Love is no more than the wide blossom which the wind assails, than the great tide that…

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“Relaxing me from head to feet Love masters me, the bitter sweet O'er thy limbs breathing; Yea, Eros now, the god born…

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Sweet love, sweet thorn, when lightly to my heart. I took your thrust, whereby I since am slain, And I lie disheveled…

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“Yet here one time your spirit was wont to move; Here might I hope to find you day or night, And here…

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Love is not all: it is not meat nor drink Nor slumber nor a roof against the rain; Nor yet a floating…

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l am not resigned to the shutting away of loving hearts in the hard ground. So it is, and so it will…

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“And you as well must die, beloved dust, And all your beauty stand you in no stead; This flawless, vital hand, this…

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“ Ebb I know what my heart is like Since your love died: It is like a hollow ledge Holding a little…

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“ Dirge Without Music I am not resigned to the shutting away of loving hearts in the hard ground. So it is,…

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“ Love is Not All Love is not all: it is not meat nor drink Nor slumber nor a roof against the…

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I, being born a woman and distressed By all the needs and notions of my kind, Am urged by your propinquity to…

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“If in the moonlight from the silent bough Suddenly with precision speak your name The nightingale, be not assured that now His…

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I shall forget you presently, my dear, So make the most of this, your little day, Your little month, your little half…

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“ Time Does Not Bring Relief Time does not bring relief; you all have lied Who told me time would ease me…

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I know I am but summer to your heart, And not the full four seasons of the year; And you must welcome…

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You wrote me a beautiful letter, I wonder if you meant it to be as beautiful as it was. I think you…

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Need we say it was not love, Now that love is perished?

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“ Song of a Second April APRIL this year, not otherwise Than April of a year ago Is full of whispers, full…

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And reaching up my hand to try, I screamed to feel it touch the sky.

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“And you as well must die, beloved dust, And all your beauty stand you in no stead; This flawless, vital hand, this perfect head,…

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Oh, children, growing up to be Adventurers into sophistry, Forbear, forbear to be of those That read the rood to learn the rose.

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After the feet of beauty fly my own.

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Some of us have been thinking and talking too long without doing anything. Poems are perfect; picketing, sometimes, is better.

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“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…

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pity me that the heart is slow to learn what the swift mind beholds at every turn.

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Youth, have no pity; leave no farthing here For age to invest in compromise and fear.

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My god is all gods in one. When I see a beautiful sunset, I worship the god of Nature; when I see a hidden…

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“Tea was sucha comfort.”

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