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Edna St. Vincent Millay has 155 quotes on this site. A few more worth reading:
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Upon this gifted age, in its dark hour falls from the sky a meteoric shower of facts; They lie unquestioned, uncombined. Wisdom…
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I make bean stalks, I'm A builder, like yourself.
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Heap not on this mound roses that she loved so well; why bewilder her with roses that she cannot see or smell.
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Not poppy, nor mandrake, Nor all the drowsy syrups of the world, Shall ever medicine thee to that sweet sleep, Which thou…
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Life is a quest and love a quarrel
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Under my head till morning; but the rain, Is full of ghosts tonight, that tap and sigh, Upon the glass and listen…
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I am all the time talking about you, and bragging, to one person or another. I am like the Ancient Mariner, who…
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Pour away despair and rinse the cup. Eat happiness like bread.
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Cut if you will with sleep's dull knife, the years from off your life, my friend! the years that death takes off…
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Let us not forget such words, and all they mean, as hatred, bitterness, and rancor greed, intolerance, bigotry; let us renew our…
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Youth, have no pity; leave no farthing here For age to invest in compromise and fear.
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The only people I really hate are servants. They're not really human beings at all.
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When you're a young poet, reading is a search for your lost family.
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Bad luck for the young poet would be a rich father, an early marriage, an early success or the ability to do…
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Blake has always been a favorite, the lyrics, not so much the prophetic books, but I suppose Yeats influenced me more as…
— Anne Stevenson
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To practice your scales, so to speak, in order play the symphony, is what you have to do as a young poet.
— Rita Dove
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To a Young Poet Time cannot break the bird's wing from the bird. Bird and wing together Go down, one feather. No…
— Edna St. Vincent Millay
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Have patience with everything that remains unsolved in your heart. Try to love the questions themselves, like locked rooms and like books…
— Rainer Maria Rilke
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But I'm too old to be written about as a young poet.
— Philip Levine
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