"Pour away despair and rinse the cup. Eat……" — Edna St. Vincent Millay
"Pour away despair and rinse the cup. Eat happiness like bread."
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160 Quotes by Edna St. Vincent Millay
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- I make bean stalks, I'm A builder, like yourself.
- Heap not on this mound roses that she loved so well; why bewilder her with roses that she cannot see…
- Not poppy, nor mandrake, Nor all the drowsy syrups of the world, Shall ever medicine thee to that sweet sleep,…
- Life is a quest and love a quarrel
- Under my head till morning; but the rain, Is full of ghosts tonight, that tap and sigh, Upon the glass…
- I am all the time talking about you, and bragging, to one person or another. I am like the Ancient…
- Cut if you will with sleep's dull knife, the years from off your life, my friend! the years that death…
- Let us not forget such words, and all they mean, as hatred, bitterness, and rancor greed, intolerance, bigotry; let us…
- Youth, have no pity; leave no farthing here For age to invest in compromise and fear.
- The only people I really hate are servants. They're not really human beings at all.
- If ever I said in grief or pride, I'd tired of honest things, I lied.
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