"I am not resigned to the shutting away……" — Edna St. Vincent Millay
"I am not resigned to the shutting away of loving hearts in the hard ground."
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Edna St. Vincent Millay
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161 Quotes by Edna St. Vincent Millay
Edna St. Vincent Millay has 161 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 Ground Quotes
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The moral virtues, then, are produced in us neither by nature nor against nature. Nature, indeed, prepares in us the…
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You can't put your feet on the ground until you've touched the sky.
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I don't think of myself as a metafictional writer at all. I think of myself as a classic writer, a…
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As people flock to urban centers where ground space is limited, cities with green walls and roofs and skyscraper farms…
— Diane Ackerman
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I had many friends to help me to fall; but as to rising again, I was so much left to…
— Teresa of Avila
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A house must be built on solid foundations if it is to last. The same principle applies to man, otherwise…
— Sai Baba
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The possibility of my presidential candidacy emerged spontaneously in public opinion polls. For my part, I noticed people's affection when…
— Michelle Bachelet
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Unintelligent persons are like weeds that thrive in good ground; they love to be amused in proportion to the degree…
— HonorÈ De Balzac
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Flying is learning how to throw yourself at the ground and miss.
— Douglas Adams
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In order to fly, all one must do is simply miss the ground.
— Douglas Adams
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Daisies are like sunshine to the ground.
— Drew Barrymore
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To say that authority, whether secular or religious, supplies no ground for morality is not to deny the obvious fact…
— Joseph Addison
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