"And her voice is a string of colored……" — Edna St. Vincent Millay
"And her voice is a string of colored beads, Or steps leading into the sea."
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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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Loyalty to God is alone fundamental. Feelings, words, deeds, must be beads strung on the string of duty.
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People count with self-satisfaction the number of times they have recited the name of God on their prayer beads, but…
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Where there is no style, there is in effect no point of view. There is, essentially, no anger, no conviction,…
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In the camp, this meant committing my verse-many thousands of lines-to memory. To help me with this I improvised decimal…
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I envy them, those monks of old; Their books they read, and their beads they told.
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You know that every bead of sweat falling off your head, every weight you've pumped - the history of that…
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