My heart Quotes by Edna St. Vincent Millay

8 My heart quotes by Edna St. Vincent Millay

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Edna St. Vincent Millay contributes eight reflections on the heart, each line resonating with her poetic elegance. The set is concise, but it feels richly expressive.

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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…

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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…

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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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Sorrow like a ceaseless rain Beats upon my heart. People twist and scream in pain-- Dawn will find them still again; This…

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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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My heart is warm with the friends I make, And better friends I'll not be knowing, Yet there isn't a train I…

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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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But far, oh, far as passionate eye can reach, And long, ah, long as rapturous eye can cling, The world is mine:…

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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…

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She is happy where she lies With the dust upon her eyes.

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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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