"A Poem from Edna St. Vincent Millay: Grown-up……" — 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 now, domestic as a plate, I should retire at half-past eight?"
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Edna St. Vincent Millay
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160 Quotes by Edna St. Vincent Millay
Edna St. Vincent Millay has 160 quotes on this site.
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Upon this gifted age, in its dark hour falls from the sky a meteoric shower of facts; They lie unquestioned,…
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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…
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Not poppy, nor mandrake, Nor all the drowsy syrups of the world, Shall ever medicine thee to that sweet sleep,…
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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…
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I am all the time talking about you, and bragging, to one person or another. I am like the Ancient…
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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…
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Let us not forget such words, and all they mean, as hatred, bitterness, and rancor greed, intolerance, bigotry; let us…
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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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That said, the question remains: how to strike the balance between free speech and mutual respect in this mixed-up world,…
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Cursed is the man who dies, but the evil done by him survives.
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Daily, constantly, we choose by our desires, our thoughts, and our actions whether we want to be blessed or cursed,…
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The earth was cursed for Adam's sake. Work is our blessing, not our doom. God has a work to do,…
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Curiosity, n. An objectionable quality of the female mind. The desire to know whether or not a woman is cursed…
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Happy the country that lives on nothing but its wits; cursed be the one that thinks it can get rich…
— Bono
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I deliver very traditionally, and people aren't threatened. I think if I cursed or seemed wilder, I couldn't get away…
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In every grave on earth's green sward is a tiny seed of the resurrection life of Jesus Christ, and that…
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We can safely make one prophecy: whatever the outcome of this war, the British Empire is at an end. It…
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Woe to the suicides! I believe that there can be none more miserable than they. Oh, there are some who…
— Fyodor Dostoevsky
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That's a miserable and cursed word, to say I had, when what I have is nothing.
— Plautus
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It may be a blessing in disguise...Something happened a long time ago in Haiti, and people might not want to…
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