“I had a little sorrow, Born of a little sin.”
Source: Millay: Poems
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Famous Edna St. Vincent Millay Quotes
“Beauty never slumbers; All is in her name; But the rose remembers The dust from which it came.”
Source: Edna St. Vincent Millay: Selected Poems
“All my life, Following Care along the dusty road, Have I looked back on loveliness and sighed.”
Source: The Edna St. Vincent Millay Collection
Source: Edna St. Vincent Millay: Selected Poems
“Life goes on forever like the gnawing of a mouse.”
Source: The Collected Poetry of Edna St. Vincent Millay
“Time can make soft that iron wood.”
Source: Collected Poems
Source: Edna St. Vincent Millay: Selected Poems
“Lord I do fear / Thou'st made the world too beautiful this year.”
Source: Wine from these grapes
“And all the loveliest things there be come simply, so it seems to me.”
Source: Collected Poems
“I am not afraid of lawyers as I used to be. They are lambs in wolves' clothing.”
Source: Letters of Edna St. Vincent Millay
“O world, I cannot hold thee close enough!”
Source: Early Poems
“For the body at best Is a bundle of aches, Longing for rest; It cries when it wakes.”
Source: Collected Poems
“And reaching up my hand to try, I screamed to feel it touch the sky.”
Source: The Edna St. Vincent Millay Collection
“The world stands out on either side, No wider than the heart is wide.”
Source: The Edna St. Vincent Millay Collection
Source: The Edna St. Vincent Millay Collection
“To be grown up is to sit at the table with people who have died, who neither listen nor speak.”
Source: Collected Poems
Source: The Edna St. Vincent Millay Collection
“Beauty in all things-no, we cannot hope for that; but some place set apart for it.”
Source: Collected Poems
“The heart grows weary after a little Of what it loved for a little while.”
Source: Collected Poems
“Blessed be Death, that cuts in marble What would have sunk to dust!”
Source: Collected Poems
“Life must go on, Though good men die.”
Source: The Edna St. Vincent Millay Collection
“Evil alone has oil for every wheel.”
Source: Collected Poems
Source: Collected Poems
“Martyred many times must be Who would keep his country free.”
Source: Edna St. Vincent Millay: Selected Poems
“He that would eat of love must eat it where it hangs.”
Source: Edna St. Vincent Millay: Selected Poems
“Here's a song was never sung: Growing old is dying young.”
Source: Early Poems
Source: Edna St. Vincent Millay: selected poems : the centenary edition
“Father, I beg of Thee a little task To dignify my days, 'tis all I ask.”
Source: The Edna St. Vincent Millay Collection
“There isn't a train I wouldn't take, no matter where it's going.”
Source: The Edna St. Vincent Millay Collection
“Strange how few, After alls said and done, the things that are Of moment.”
Source: The Edna St. Vincent Millay Collection
Source: Collected Poems
Source: Selected poems