"She learned her hands in a fairy-tale, And……" — Edna St. Vincent Millay
"She learned her hands in a fairy-tale, And her mouth on a valentine."
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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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More Fairy Quotes
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We cannot pass our guardian angel's bounds, resigned or sullen, he will hear our sighs.
— Saint Augustine
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Those of us who can remember our childhoods will recall how ardently we relished the moment of the bedtime story,…
— Paul Auster
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I like Cinderella, I really do. She has a good work ethic. I appreciate a good, hard-working gal. And she…
— Amy Adams
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Isn't it enough to see that a garden is beautiful without having to believe that there are fairies at the…
— Douglas Adams
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Do you believe in fairies? Say quick that you believe. If you believe, clap your hands!
— James M. Barrie
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To me in my childhood, elves and fairies of all sorts were very real things, and my dolls were as…
— Annie Besant
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It is not because angels are holier than men or devils that makes them angels, but because they do not…
— William Blake
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I don't really care what people tell children - when you believe in Santa Claus, the Easter Bunny and the…
— Julie Burchill
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I acquired a hunger for fairy tales in the dark days of blackout and blitz in the Second World War.
— A. S. Byatt
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All the ancient classic fairy tales have always been scary and dark.
— Helena Bonham Carter
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I was a great reader of fairy tales. I tried to read the entire fairy tale section of the library.
— Beverly Cleary
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You should treat a muse like a fairy.
— Paulo Coelho
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