--- title: "4 Stairs Quotes By Edna St. Vincent Millay" description: "4 Stairs quotes by Edna St. Vincent Millay. Plus more from Edna St. Vincent Millay and more Stairs sayings from other authors." image: "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/cb7/edna-st-vincent-millay-1291_cursed_a-poem-from-edna-st-vincent-millay-grown_57484.jpg" --- > [A Poem from Edna St. Vincent Millay: Grown-up Was it for this I uttered prayers, And sobbed and cursed and kicked the…](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/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/cb7/edna-st-vincent-millay-1291_cursed_a-poem-from-edna-st-vincent-millay-grown_57484.jpg) > [Life in itself / Is nothing, / An empty cup, a flight of uncarpeted stairs. / It is not enough that yearly,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/edna-st-vincent-millay/life-in-itself-is-nothing-an-empty-cup-a-flight-of-uncarpeted-stairs/) [Edna St. Vincent Millay](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/edna-st-vincent-millay/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/56e/edna-st-vincent-millay-1291_april_life-in-itself-is-nothing-an-empty-cup-a_1335275.jpg) > [Spring TO what purpose, April, do you return again? Beauty is not enough. You can no longer quiet me with the redness…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/edna-st-vincent-millay/spring-to-what-purpose-april-do-you-return-again-beauty-is-not-enough/) [Edna St. Vincent Millay](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/edna-st-vincent-millay/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/0f1/edna-st-vincent-millay-1291_april_spring-to-what-purpose-april-do-you-retu_3028306.jpg) > [Life in itself Is nothing, An empty cup, a flight of uncarpeted stairs.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/edna-st-vincent-millay/life-in-itself-is-nothing-an-empty-cup-a-flight-of-uncarpeted-stairs-2/) [Edna St. Vincent Millay](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/edna-st-vincent-millay/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/fc6/edna-st-vincent-millay-1291_cups_life-in-itself-is-nothing-an-empty-cup-a_3203929.jpg) ## Other authors on Stairs ## 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/stairs/edna-st-vincent-millay/#itemlist", "name": "4 Stairs Quotes By Edna St. Vincent Millay", "numberOfItems": 4, "itemListElement": [ { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 1, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "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 now, domestic as a plate, I should retire at half-past eight?", "creator": { "@type": "Person", "name": "Edna St. Vincent Millay" }, "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/edna-st-vincent-millay/a-poem-from-edna-st-vincent-millay-grown-up-was-it-for-this-i-uttered/", "image": { "@type": "ImageObject", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/cb7/edna-st-vincent-millay-1291_cursed_a-poem-from-edna-st-vincent-millay-grown_57484.jpg", "contentUrl": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/cb7/edna-st-vincent-millay-1291_cursed_a-poem-from-edna-st-vincent-millay-grown_57484.jpg", "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/cb7/edna-st-vincent-millay-1291_cursed_a-poem-from-edna-st-vincent-millay-grown_57484.jpg", "width": 1080, "height": 1080, "caption": "“A Poem from Edna St. Vincent Millay: Grown-up Was it for this I uttered prayers, And sobbed and cursed and…” — Edna St. Vincent Millay", "creditText": "SMS4Smile Quotes", "creator": { "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/#organization" } } } }, { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 2, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "Life in itself / Is nothing, / An empty cup, a flight of uncarpeted stairs. / It is not enough that yearly, down this hill, / April / Comes like an idiot, babbling and strewing flowers.", "creator": { "@type": "Person", "name": "Edna St. Vincent Millay" }, "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/edna-st-vincent-millay/life-in-itself-is-nothing-an-empty-cup-a-flight-of-uncarpeted-stairs/", "image": { "@type": "ImageObject", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/56e/edna-st-vincent-millay-1291_april_life-in-itself-is-nothing-an-empty-cup-a_1335275.jpg", "contentUrl": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/56e/edna-st-vincent-millay-1291_april_life-in-itself-is-nothing-an-empty-cup-a_1335275.jpg", "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/56e/edna-st-vincent-millay-1291_april_life-in-itself-is-nothing-an-empty-cup-a_1335275.jpg", "width": 1080, "height": 1080, "caption": "“Life in itself / Is nothing, / An empty cup, a flight of uncarpeted stairs. / It is not enough that yearly…” — Edna St. Vincent Millay", "creditText": "SMS4Smile Quotes", "creator": { "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/#organization" } } } }, { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 3, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "Spring TO what purpose, April, do you return again? 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