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Quotes by Edna St. Vincent Millay


Beauty is whatever gives joy.
– 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 can hurt him. If it is a bad book nothing can help him.
– Edna St. Vincent Millay
Childhood is the kingdom where nobody dies. Nobody that matters, that is.
– Edna St. Vincent Millay
God, I can push the grass apart and lay my finger on Thy heart.
– Edna St. Vincent Millay
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.
– 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
If I love you Wednesday, What is that to you? I do not love you Thursday - so much is true.
– Edna St. Vincent Millay
Not truth, but faith, it is that keeps the world alive.
– Edna St. Vincent Millay
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.
– Edna St. Vincent Millay
Set the foot down with distrust on the crust of the world - it is thin.
– Edna St. Vincent Millay
Tea was such a comfort.
– Edna St. Vincent Millay
The Englishman foxtrots as he fox-hunts, with all his being, through thickets, through ditches, over hedges, through chiffons, through waiters, over saxophones, to the victorious finish; and who goes home depends on how many the ambulance will accommodate.
– Edna St. Vincent Millay
The longest absence is less perilous to love than the terrible trials of incessant proximity.
– Edna St. Vincent Millay
The soul can split the sky in two and let the face of God shine through.
– Edna St. Vincent Millay
We are all ruled in what we do by impulses; and these impulses are so organized that our actions in general serve for our self preservation and that of the race.
– Edna St. Vincent Millay
What the customer demands is last year's model, cheaper. To find out what the customer needs you have to understand what the customer is doing as well as he understands it. Then you build what he needs and you educate him to the fact that he needs it.
– Edna St. Vincent Millay
Oh, oh, you will be sorry for that word!
Give back my book and take my kiss instead.
Was it my enemy or my friend I heard,
What a big book for such a little head!
Come, I will show you now my newest hat,
And you may watch me purse my mouth and prink!
Oh, I shall love you still, and all of that.
I never again shall tell you what I think.
I shall be sweet and crafty, soft and sly;
You will not catch me reading any more:
I shall be called a wife to pattern by;
And some day when you knock and push the door,
Some sane day, not too bright and not too stormy,
I shall be gone, and you may whistle for me.
– Edna St. Vincent Millay
It's not true that life is one damn thing after another; it is one damn thing over and over.
– Edna St. Vincent Millay
Soar, eat ether, see what has never been seen; depart, be lost, but climb.
– Edna St. Vincent Millay
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
Where you used to be, there is a hole in the world, which I find myself constantly walking around in the daytime, and falling into at night. I miss you like hell.
– Edna St. Vincent Millay
My dad used to love Steely Dan, the Stones, Jethro Tull and all that. There was always Steely Dan going in my dad's car, but I remember The Royal Scam in particular because it has 'Kid Charlemagne' on it.
– Edna St. Vincent Millay
Music my rampart, and my only one.
– Edna St. Vincent Millay
Life can be challenging and sad... but music is the easy part.
– Edna St. Vincent Millay
In regards to being a fashion aficionado, there's a certain amount of taking yourself seriously in the professional world. The self-effacing person can't completely go down the serious road. But I design, and love when things are beautiful.
– Edna St. Vincent Millay
I've been so entwined with technology since I was about 15, recording myself and multitracking and producing things on my own.
– Edna St. Vincent Millay
I remember looking at the sky and thinking that the universe is so big and it's all chaos. I call it 'the dark fear.' At any moment, the dark fear could come in.
– Edna St. Vincent Millay
I grew up in Texas and we used to go to Padre Island, eight hours in the car down to the beach.
– Edna St. Vincent Millay
Fashion, for me, is anything that's aesthetic and beautiful. Art, food, film. It's something that I appreciate and really like.
– Edna St. Vincent Millay