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Edna St. Vincent Millay Quotes



Quotes by Edna St. Vincent Millay - (6 quotes)

Edna St. Vincent Millay - From the Beauty category:

Euclid alone / Has looked on Beauty bare. Fortunate they / Who, though once only and then but far away, / Have heard her massive sandal set on stone. (Edna St. Vincent Millay)

Edna St. Vincent Millay - From the Life category:

-in a letter to Aruthur Davison Ficke...
It's not true that life is one damn thing after another - it's one damn thing over and over. (Edna St. Vincent Millay)

Edna St. Vincent Millay - From the Light category:

My candle burns at both ends; / It will not last the night; / But, ah, my foes, and, oh, my friends – / It gives a lovely light. (Edna St. Vincent Millay)

Edna St. Vincent Millay - From the Love category:

Love is not all: it is not meat nor drink / Nor slumber nor a roof against the rain; / Nor yet a floating spar to men that sink. / 'Love Is Not All' (Edna St. Vincent Millay)

Edna St. Vincent Millay - From the Nature category:

All I could see from where I stood / Was three long mountains and a wood. (Edna St. Vincent Millay)

Edna St. Vincent Millay - From the Trust category:

Set the foot down with distrust on the crust of the world – it is thin. (Edna St. Vincent Millay)