Words matter. These are the best Edna St. Vincent Millay Quotes, and they’re great for sharing with your friends.
Where you used to be, there is a hole in the world, which I find myself constantly walking around in the daytime, and falling in at night. I miss you like hell.
The longest absence is less perilous to love than the terrible trials of incessant proximity.
Not truth, but faith, it is that keeps the world alive.
Set the foot down with distrust on the crust of the world – it is thin.
The young are so old, they are born with their fingers crossed.
Parrots, tortoises and redwoods live a longer life than men do; Men a longer life than dogs do; Dogs a longer life than love does.
Childhood is the kingdom where nobody dies. Nobody that matters, that is.
I went to Boston fully expecting to be arrested – arrested by a polizia created by a government that my ancestors rebelled to establish.
My god is all gods in one. When I see a beautiful sunset, I worship the god of Nature; when I see a hidden action brought to light, I worship the god of Truth; when I see a bad man punished and a good man go free, I worship the god of Justice; when I see a penitent forgiven, I worship the god of Mercy.
I’m so tired of hearing about ‘Renascence,’ I’m nearly dead. I find it’s as hard to live down an early triumph as an early indiscretion.
The soul can split the sky in two and let the face of God shine through.
It is high time we found out about this man Cummings. Let us give him every opportunity to show us at once whether he is a genius, a charlatan, or a congenital defective – and get him off our minds.
I see things with my own eyes, just as if they were the first eyes that ever saw, and then I set about to tell, as best I can, just what I’ve seen.
Some of us have been thinking and talking too long without doing anything. Poems are perfect; picketing, sometimes, is better.
It’s not true that life is one damn thing after another; it’s one damn thing over and over.
God, I can push the grass apart and lay my finger on Thy heart.
Please give me some good advice in your next letter. I promise not to follow it.
Beauty is whatever gives joy.
I am glad that I paid so little attention to good advice; had I abided by it I might have been saved from some of my most valuable mistakes.
A person who publishes a book willfully appears before the populace with his pants down. If it is a good book nothing can hurt him. If it is a bad book nothing can help him.
