Share
×
Inspirational Quotes
Authors
Professions
Topics
Tags
Quote
A ghost in marble of a girl you knew Who would have loved you in a day or two.
Edna St. Vincent Millay
Share
Change background
T
T
T
Change font
Original
TAGS & TOPICS
Edna St. Vincent Millay
Age: 58 †
Born: 1892
Born: February 22
Died: 1950
Died: October 19
Librettist
Playwright
Poet
Translator
Writer
Rockland
Maine
Nancy Boyd
Edna St. Vincent Millay
Marble
Ghost
Loved
Knew
Girl
Two
Would
More quotes by Edna St. Vincent Millay
Love is not all: it is not meat nor drink Nor slumber nor a roof against the rain Nor yet a floating spar to men that sink And rise and sink and rise and sink again Love can not fill the thickened lung with breath, Nor clean the blood, nor set the fractured bone Yet many a man is making friends with death Even as I speak, for lack of love alone.
Edna St. Vincent Millay
A grave is such a quiet place.
Edna St. Vincent Millay
Please don't think me negligent or rude. I am both, in effect, of course, but please don't think me either.
Edna St. Vincent Millay
Stranger, pause and look From the dust of ages Lift this little book, Turn the tattered pages, Read me, do not let me die! Search the fading letters finding Steadfast in the broken binding All that once was I!
Edna St. Vincent Millay
I screamed, and--lo!--Infinity Came down and settled over me
Edna St. Vincent Millay
Evil alone has oil for every wheel.
Edna St. Vincent Millay
What terrible fear causes Man to address the Void as Thou?
Edna St. Vincent Millay
Pour away despair and rinse the cup. Eat happiness like bread.
Edna St. Vincent Millay
Curse thee, Life, I will live with thee no more! Thou hast mocked me, starved me, beat my body sore! And all for a pledge that was not pledged by me, I have kissed thy crust and eaten sparingly That I might eat again, and met thy sneers With deprecations, and thy blows with tears.
Edna St. Vincent Millay
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
Edna St. Vincent Millay
I do not think there is a woman in whom the roots of passion shoot deeper than in me.
Edna St. Vincent Millay
O troubled forms, O early love unfortunate and hard, Time has estranged you into a jewel cold and pure
Edna St. Vincent Millay
Although we sometimes did without a few of life's necessities, we rarely lacked for its luxuries.
Edna St. Vincent Millay
Euclid alone Has looked on Beauty bare. Fortunate they Who, though once only and then but far away, Have heard her massive sandal set on stone.
Edna St. Vincent Millay
Dust in an urn long since, dispersed and dead Is great Apollo and the happier he
Edna St. Vincent Millay
What should I be but just what I am?
Edna St. Vincent Millay
A person who publishes a book appears willfully in public eye with his pants down.
Edna St. Vincent Millay
Time can make soft that iron wood.
Edna St. Vincent Millay
Beauty is whatever gives joy.
Edna St. Vincent Millay
If I could have two things in one: the peace of the grave, and the light of the sun.
Edna St. Vincent Millay
