"I will be the gladdest thing under the……" — Edna St. Vincent Millay
"I will be the gladdest thing under the sun! I will touch a hundred flowers and not pick one."
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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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To sit in the shade on a fine day and look upon verdure is the most perfect refreshment.
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In the winter, I enjoy cross-country skiing and raising orchids and amaryllises. If I could grow tropical flowers as perennials,…
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True love stories never have endings.
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The smallest flower is a thought, a life answering to some feature of the Great Whole, of whom they have…
— Honore de Balzac
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The ballet is a purely female thing; it is a woman, a garden of beautiful flowers, and man is the…
— George Balanchine
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A young bride is like a plucked flower; but a guilty wife is like a flower that had been walked…
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Love has its own instinct, finding the way to the heart, as the feeblest insect finds the way to its…
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Health is the thing that makes you feel that now is the best time of the year.
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These flowers, which were splendid and sprightly, waking in the dawn of the morning, in the evening will be a…
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For myself I hold no preferences among flowers, so long as they are wild, free, spontaneous. Bricks to all greenhouses!…
— Edward Abbey
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I don't want to be stinky poo poo girl, I want to be happy flower child.
— Drew Barrymore
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Becoming emancipated at 14, my life wasn't normal. I didn't have to go to school, so I didn't. I was…
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