"Cruel of heart, lay down my song. Your……" — Edna St. Vincent Millay
"Cruel of heart, lay down my song. Your reading eyes have done me wrong. Not for you was the pen bitten, And the mind wrung, and the song written."
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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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