Quotes by Edna St. Vincent Millay

Explore a curated collection of 50 quotes by Edna St. Vincent Millay. Discover timeless wisdom, insightful thoughts, and memorable words that have inspired readers around the world. Browse through the gallery below and click on any quote to read more.

They say when you are missing someone that they are probably feeling the same, but I don't think it's possible for you t — Edna St. Vincent Millay
What lips my lips have kissed, and where, and why,I have forgotten, and what arms have lainUnder my head till morning, b — Edna St. Vincent Millay
Music, my rampart and my only one. — Edna St. Vincent Millay
Well, I have lost you; and I lost you fairly;In my own way, and with my full consent.Say what you will, kings in a tumbr — Edna St. Vincent Millay
Into the darkness they go, the wise and the lovely. — Edna St. Vincent Millay
Listen, children:Your father is dead.From his old coatsI'll make you little jackets;I'll make you little trousersFrom hi — Edna St. Vincent Millay
No one but Night, with tears on her dark face, watches beside me in this windy place. — Edna St. Vincent Millay
TO what purpose, April, do you return again? Beauty is not enough. You can no longer quiet me with the redness Of little — Edna St. Vincent Millay
Oh, friend, forget not, when you fain would noteIn me a beauty that was never mine,How first you knew me in a book I wro — Edna St. Vincent Millay
Now goes under, and I watch it go under, the sunThat will not rise again.Today has seen the setting, in your eyes cold a — Edna St. Vincent Millay
Catch from the board of beauty/ Such careless crumbs as fall. — Edna St. Vincent Millay
A person who publishes a book willfully appears before the populace with his pants down. If it is a good book nothing ca — Edna St. Vincent Millay
A person who publishes a book appears willfully in public eye with his pants down. — Edna St. Vincent Millay
I know I am but summer to your heart, and not the full four seasons of the year. — Edna St. Vincent Millay
I shall die, but that is all that I shall do for Death. — Edna St. Vincent Millay
I, being born a woman and distressedBy all the needs and notions of my kind,Am urged by your propinquity to findYour per — Edna St. Vincent Millay
I do not think there is a woman in whom the roots of passion shoot deeper than in me. — Edna St. Vincent Millay
Where you used to be, there is a hole in the world, which I find myself constantly walking around in the daytime, and fa — Edna St. Vincent Millay
I would I were alive again to kiss the fingers of the rain. — Edna St. Vincent Millay
It is impossible for me to be an Anarchist, for I do not believe in the essential goodness of man. The world, the physic — Edna St. Vincent Millay