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Famous Edna St. Vincent Millay Quotes
“Life isn't one thing after another, it's the same thing over and over.”
“If I could have two things in one: the peace of the grave, and the light of the sun.”
“A grave is such a quiet place.”
“After the feet of beauty fly my own.”
“I shall die, but that is all that I shall do for Death; I am not on his pay-roll.”
“I am not a tentative person. Whatever I do, I give up my whole self to it.”
“Although we sometimes did without a few of life's necessities, we rarely lacked for its luxuries.”
“That is my being, the madness of an unaccustomed mood.”
“Dust in an urn long since, dispersed and dead Is great Apollo; and the happier he”
“To what purpose, April, do you return again? Beauty is not enough.”
“let geese Gabble and hiss, but heroes seek release From dusty bondage into luminous air.”
“I screamed, and--lo!--Infinity Came down and settled over me”
“But if I can't be sorry, why, I might as well be glad!”
“Beautiful as a dandelion-blossom golden in the green grass, this life can be.”
“Life isn't all beer and skittles; few of us have touched a skittle in years.”
“The soul can split the sky in two and let the face of God shine through.”
“God, I can push the grass apart and lay my finger on Thy heart.”
“The longest absence is less perilous to love than the terrible trials of incessant proximity.”
“The young are so old, they are born with their fingers crossed.”
“Music my rampart, and my only one.”
“Please give me some good advice in your next letter. I promise not to follow it.”
“That which has quelled me, lives with me, Accomplice in catastrophe.”