Edna St. Vincent Millay Quotes

Edna St. Vincent Millay was an American poet and dramatist, who received a Pulitzer Prize for The Harp-Weaver, and Other Poems (1922). She was famous for her independence and sexual freedom. Here are a few quotes from Edna St. Vincent Millay.

• "A person who publishes a book appears willfully in public with his pants down."
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• "April comes like an idiot, babbling and stewing flowers."
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• "Beauty never slumbers;
  All is in her name;
  But the rose remembers
  The dust from which it came."
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• "Childhood is the kingdom where nobody dies. Nobody that matters, that is."
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• "God, I can push the grass apart and lay my finger on Thy heart."
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• "I know I am but summer to your heart, and not the full four seasons of the year."
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• "I think I should have loved you presently,
  And given you in earnest words I flung in jest."
  - Edna St. Vincent Millay, "I Think I Should Have Loved You Presently"
  
  
• "I will be the gladdest thing under the sun! I will touch a hundred flowers and not pick one."
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• "It's not true that life is one damn thing after another; it is one damn thing over and over."
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• "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, "A Few Figs from Thistles"
  
  
• "Not truth, but faith, it is that keeps the world alive."
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• "Please give me some good advice in your next letter. I promise not to follow it."
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• "Set the foot down with distrust on the crust of the world -- it is thin."
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• "Soar, eat ether, see what has never been seen; depart, be lost, but climb."
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• "Tea was such a comfort."
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• "The longest absence is less perilous to love than the terrible trials of incessant proximity."
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• "The soul can split the sky in two and let the face of God shine through."
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• "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."
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• "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."
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