Edna St. Vincent Millay Quotes

Edna St. Vincent Millay Quotes: A Curated Collection of the Best Inspirational, Motivational, and Thought-Provoking Sayings Written by Edna St. Vincent Millay

Edna St. Vincent Millay
Total Quotes 203
Death Devours All Lovely Things; Lesbia With Her Sparrow Shares The Darkness--presently Every Bed Is Narrow.
Death
Darkness
Lovely
On And On Eternally Shall Your Altered Fluid Run, Bud And Bloom And Go To Seed; But Your Singing Days Are Done
Running
Singing
Bud
Thus In The Winter Stands The Lonely Tree, Nor Knows What Birds Have Vanished One By One, Yet Knows Its Boughs More Silent Than Before
Lonely
Winter
Bird
Father, I Beg Of Thee A Little Task To Dignify My Days, 'tis All I Ask.
Father
Tasks
Littles
I Am Not Resigned To The Shutting Away Of Loving Hearts In The Hard Ground.
Heart
Heavenly
Resigned
Sweet Love, Sweet Thorn, When Lightly To My Heart. I Took Your Thrust, Whereby I Since Am Slain, And I Lie Disheveled In The Grass Apart, A Sodden Thing Bedrenched By Tears And Rain.
Breakup
Sweet
Lying
I Only Know That Summer Sang In Me A Little While, That In Me Sings No More.
Summer
Littles
Knows
But She Was Not Made For Any Man, And She Will Never Be All Mine.
Men
Made
Mines
One Things There's No Getting By, I've Been A Wicked Girl, Says I... But, If I Can't Be Sorry I Might As Well Be Glad !
Girl
Sorry
Wicked
When You Are Corn And Roses And At Rest I Shall Endure, A Dense And Sanguine Ghost To Haunt The Scene Where I Was Happiest To Bend Above The Thing I Loved The Most
Rose
Corn
Ghost
Love Is Not All; It Is Not Meat Nor Drink.
Love Is
Meat
Slumber
It's Little I Know What's In My Heart,what's In My Mind It's Little I Know,but There's That In Me Must Up And Start,and It's Little I Care Where My Feet Go.
Heart
Feet
Mind
  • Born: February 22, 1892
  • Died: October 19, 1950
  • Occupation: Poet
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