"How strange a thing is death, bringing to……" — Edna St. Vincent Millay
"How strange a thing is death, bringing to his knees, bringing to his antlers The buck in the snow . . . Life, looking out attentive from the eyes of the doe."
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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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More Antlers Quotes
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You should never put the new antlers of a deer to your nose and smell them. They have little insects…
— Yoshida Kenko
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Treasured Pagan Deities were misrepresented and distorted by the Christians for political and religious gain. Dressing their own Satan, who…
— Laurie Cabot
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When we put the antlers on the model and then draped over it the lace embroidery that we had made,…
— Alexander McQueen
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The tragedy of a species becoming unfit for life by over-evolving one ability is not confined to humankind. Thus it…
— Peter Wessel Zapffe
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But one day, when I was still young, I was parted from my family and left my native country. I…
— Georg Solti
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My wife can't cook at all. She made chocolate mousse. An antler got stuck in my throat.
— Rodney Dangerfield
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The father of a daughter is nothing but a high-class hostage. A father turns a stony face to his sons,…
— Garrison Keillor
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Most people would rather be sheep than stand on their own with antlers on.
— Tori Amos
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the feminine journey is a story unfolding, and its epiphanies come through real things, through tangibles like walking sticks and…
— Sue Monk Kidd
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Stuffed deer heads on walls are bad enough, but it’s worse when you see them wearing dark glasses, having streamers…
— Ellen DeGeneres
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Don't order any of the faerie food," said Jace, looking at her over the top of his menu. "It tends…
— Cassandra Clare
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We could see the children's toys here and there, and we saw a game that the children had made themselves…
— Richard Brautigan
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