All things Quote by Edna St. Vincent Millay

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

Edna St. Vincent Millay

★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 5.0 out of 5 (4 ratings)

More by Edna St. Vincent Millay

Into the darkness they go, the wise and the lovely.

Edna St. Vincent Millay

Image

There are a hundred places where I fear To go, --so with his memory they brim! And entering with relief some quiet place Where…

Edna St. Vincent Millay

Image

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…

Edna St. Vincent Millay

Image

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…

Edna St. Vincent Millay

Image

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

Edna St. Vincent Millay

Image

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

Edna St. Vincent Millay

Image

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

Edna St. Vincent Millay

Image

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

Edna St. Vincent Millay

Image

After the feet of beauty fly my own.

Edna St. Vincent Millay

Image

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

Edna St. Vincent Millay

Image

“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 fill into the sky. And so I looked, and, after all, The sky was not so very tall. The sky, I said, must somewhere stop, And — sure enough! — I see the top! The sky,…

Edna St. Vincent Millay

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

Edna St. Vincent Millay

Image

Explore all 260 Edna St. Vincent Millay quotes

More All things quotes

Those whose life is long still strive for gain, and for all mortals all things take second place to money.

Sophocles

Image

To explicate the uses of the Brain seems as difficult a task as to paint the Soul, of which it is commonly said, that…

Thomas Willis

Image

A tree is a self: it is 'unseen shaping' more than it is leaves or bark, roots or cellulose or fruit ... What this…

Brian Swimme

Image

Dear God, I trust that no matter what happens in my life, it is for my highest good. And no matter what happens in the lives of those I love, it is for their highest good. From all things that are put before us all, we shall become stronger and more loving people. I am grateful for all the beauty…

Susan Jeffers

Moderation, honey, in all things but love and chocolate. That's my motto.

Barbara Bretton

Image

There is a spirit which I feel that delights to do no evil, nor to revenge any wrong, but delights to endure all things,…

James Nayler

Image

What greater weakness can there be than not to know what is the source of one's being, of one's life, of one's senses, of one's knowledge, and what is to be their end? What can be more deeply disheartening than to wonder whether one's soul is, perhaps, a material thing, like a stone or a reptile, corruptible like these base…

Jean de la Bruyere

When I was in my teens I had a series of intensely religious experiences. They deepened my sense of God as the creator of all things. And they also deepened my sensitivity towards creation itself so that concern for God's creatures and animal rights followed from that. Some people think I'm an animal rights person who just happens, almost incidentally,…

Andrew Linzey

It is more than a little ironic that "capital accumulation" once a rather tendentious Marxian view of a supposed capitalist obsession, should have become - of all things - Wall Street's own slogan.

Robert Kuttner