“Unlike most people, I kept my mouth shut about the man I was living with.” — Edna St. Vincent Millay Copy Share Image
pity me that the heart is slow to learn what the swift mind beholds at every turn. — Edna St. Vincent Millay Heart Copy Share Image
The world stands out on either side, No wider than the heart is wide. — Edna St. Vincent Millay Heart Copy Share Image
The soul can split the sky in two and let the face of God shine through. — Edna St. Vincent Millay God 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
There isn't a train I wouldn't take, no matter where it's going. — Edna St. Vincent Millay Fitness Copy Share Image
I am not afraid of lawyers as I used to be. They are lambs in wolves' clothing. — Edna St. Vincent Millay 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
Thus in the winter stands the lonely tree, Nor knows what birds have vanished one by one, Yet knows its boughs more… — Edna St. Vincent Millay Bird 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
“The sun that warmed our stooping backs and withered the weed uprooted- We shall not feel it again. We shall die in… — Edna St. Vincent Millay Copy Share Image
Euclid alone Has looked on Beauty bare. Fortunate they Who, though once only and then but far away, Have heard her massive… — Edna St. Vincent Millay Beauty Copy Share Image
Safe upon the solid rock the ugly houses stand. Come and see my shining palace built upon the sand! — Edna St. Vincent Millay Copy Share Image
My heart is warm with the friends I make, And better friends I'll not be knowing, Yet there isn't a train I… — Edna St. Vincent Millay Fitness Copy Share Image
To be grown up is to sit at the table with people who have died, who neither listen nor speak ... — Edna St. Vincent Millay Aging Copy Share Image
I am all the time talking about you, and bragging, to one person or another. I am like the Ancient Mariner, who… — Edna St. Vincent Millay Ancient Copy Share Image
This have I known always: Love is no more than the wide blossom which the wind assails, than the great tide that… — Edna St. Vincent Millay Copy Share Image
We were so wholly one I had not thought That we could die apart. I had not thought That I could move,—and… — Edna St. Vincent Millay Design 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
“Relaxing me from head to feet Love masters me, the bitter sweet O'er thy limbs breathing; Yea, Eros now, the god born… — Edna St. Vincent Millay Eros Copy Share Image
“This summer has been so short, so small. I think that like “Alice” it ate the cake that said “Eat Me”, and… — Edna St. Vincent Millay Flower Copy Share Image
Sweet love, sweet thorn, when lightly to my heart. I took your thrust, whereby I since am slain, And I lie disheveled… — Edna St. Vincent Millay Breakup Copy Share Image
So up I got in anger, And took a book I had, And put a ribbon on my hair To please a… — Edna St. Vincent Millay Anger 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
“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
Listen, children: Your father is dead. From his old coats I'll make you little jackets; I'll make you little trousers From his… — Edna St. Vincent Millay Copy Share Image
I shall forget you presently, my dear, So make the most of this, your little day, Your little month, your little half… — Edna St. Vincent Millay Copy Share Image
“ Time Does Not Bring Relief Time does not bring relief; you all have lied Who told me time would ease me… — Edna St. Vincent Millay Copy Share Image
“Gone, gone again is Summer the lovely. She that knew not where to hide, Is gone again like a jeweled fish from… — Edna St. Vincent Millay Copy Share Image
For my omniscience paid I toll In infinite remorse of soul. All sin was of my sinning, all Atoning mine, and mine… — Edna St. Vincent Millay Copy Share Image
I know I am but summer to your heart, And not the full four seasons of the year; And you must welcome… — Edna St. Vincent Millay Bird Copy Share Image
