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98 Top Edna St. Vincent Millay Quotes For A Better Understanding Of Life

Famous As: Poet
Born On: February 22, 1892
Died On: October 19, 1950
Born In: Rockland, Maine, United States
Died At Age: 58

Edna St. Vincent Millay was a celebrated American poet, writer and activist who wrote some of the best sonnets in the world. She was honored with many awards for her work. It is a lesser-known fact that she is one of the few female poets to receive the prestigious “Pulitzer Prize for Poetry” for her work ‘The Ballad of the Harp Weaver’. Her novel titled ‘A Few Figs from Thistles’ raised a few eyebrows as it preached about female sexuality and feminism. The general theme of her work was based on individualism and contemplation of oneself through spirituality in the face of oppression due to gender bias. It glorified women rights and feministic approach which inspired many women to view matters of life in a different manner. Her work intended to spark a revolution for changing the mindset of a common man in the society. Even though she died early, her legacy remains forever in the hearts of the womenfolk in her country and all over the globe. Being a noted writer and poet, she shared her thoughts and views on several things. Many of her thoughts have become famous as her quotes and they are quoted extensively. We have compiled Edna St. Vincent Millay’s quotes from her writings, speeches etc. Browse through Edna Millay’s quotes on aging, beauty, books, children, earth, god, grief, hate, death, love, memories, hills, rain, sleep, songs, summer and much more.

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They say when you are missing someone that they are probably feeling the same, but I don't think it's possible for you to miss me as much as I'm missing you right now

They say when you are missing someone that they are probably feeling the same, but I don't think it's possible for you to miss me as much as I'm missing you right now

Edna St. Vincent Millay
I know I am but summer to your heart, and not the full four seasons of the year.

I know I am but summer to your heart, and not the full four seasons of the year.

Edna St. Vincent Millay
Where you used to be, there is a hole in the world, which I find myself constantly walking around in the daytime, and falling in at night. I miss you like hell.

Where you used to be, there is a hole in the world, which I find myself constantly walking around in the daytime, and falling in at night. I miss you like hell.

Edna St. Vincent Millay
Please give me some good advice in your next letter. I promise not to follow it.

Please give me some good advice in your next letter. I promise not to follow it.

Edna St. Vincent Millay
My heart is warm with the friends I make,
And better friends I'll not be knowing,
Yet there isn't a train I wouldn't take,
No matter where it's going.

My heart is warm with the friends I make, And better friends I'll not be knowing, Yet there isn't a train I wouldn't take, No matter where it's going.

Edna St. Vincent Millay
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!

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
Into the darkness they go, the wise and the lovely.

Into the darkness they go, the wise and the lovely.

Edna St. Vincent Millay
I am glad that I paid so little attention to good advice; had I abided by it I might have been saved from some of my most valuable mistakes.

I am glad that I paid so little attention to good advice; had I abided by it I might have been saved from some of my most valuable mistakes.

Edna St. Vincent Millay
Childhood is not from birth to a certain age and at a certain age. The child is grown, and puts away childish things. Childhood is the kingdom where nobody dies.

Childhood is not from birth to a certain age and at a certain age. The child is grown, and puts away childish things. Childhood is the kingdom where nobody dies.

Edna St. Vincent Millay
After all my erstwhile dear, my no longer cherished; 
Need we say it was not love, just because it perished?

After all my erstwhile dear, my no longer cherished; Need we say it was not love, just because it perished?

Edna St. Vincent Millay
I will be the gladdest thing under the sun! I will touch a hundred flowers and not pick one.

I will be the gladdest thing under the sun! I will touch a hundred flowers and not pick one.

Edna St. Vincent Millay
It's not true that life is one damn thing after another; it's one damn thing over and over.

It's not true that life is one damn thing after another; it's one damn thing over and over.

Edna St. Vincent Millay
I love humanity but I hate people.

I love humanity but I hate people.

Edna St. Vincent Millay
You see, I am a poet, and not quite right in the head, darling. It’s only that.

You see, I am a poet, and not quite right in the head, darling. It’s only that.

Edna St. Vincent Millay
What should I be
but just what I am?

What should I be but just what I am?

Edna St. Vincent Millay
Pity me that the heart is slow to learn
What the swift mind beholds at every turn.

Pity me that the heart is slow to learn What the swift mind beholds at every turn.

Edna St. Vincent Millay
Night falls fast.
Today is in the past.

Blown from the dark hill hither to my door
Three flakes, then four
Arrive, then many more.

Night falls fast. Today is in the past. Blown from the dark hill hither to my door Three flakes, then four Arrive, then many more.

Edna St. Vincent Millay
Ebb

I know what my heart is like
Since your love died:
It is like a hollow ledge
Holding a little pool
Left there by the tide,
A little tepid pool,
Drying inward from the edge.

Ebb I know what my heart is like Since your love died: It is like a hollow ledge Holding a little pool Left there by the tide, A little tepid pool, Drying inward from the edge.

Edna St. Vincent Millay
Soar, eat ether, see what has never been seen; depart, be lost, but climb.

Soar, eat ether, see what has never been seen; depart, be lost, but climb.

Edna St. Vincent Millay
There is no shelter in you anywhere.

There is no shelter in you anywhere.

Edna St. Vincent Millay
The longest absence is less perilous to love than the terrible trials of incessant proximity.

The longest absence is less perilous to love than the terrible trials of incessant proximity.

Edna St. Vincent Millay
Lost in Hell,-Persephone,
Take her head upon your knee;
Say to her,

Lost in Hell,-Persephone, Take her head upon your knee; Say to her, "My dear, my dear, It is not so dreadful here.

Edna St. Vincent Millay
No one but Night, with tears on her dark face, watches beside me in this windy place.

No one but Night, with tears on her dark face, watches beside me in this windy place.

Edna St. Vincent Millay
Music, my rampart and my only one.

Music, my rampart and my only one.

Edna St. Vincent Millay
This book, when I am dead, will be
A little faint perfume of me.
People who knew me well will say,
She really used to think that way.

This book, when I am dead, will be A little faint perfume of me. People who knew me well will say, She really used to think that way.

Edna St. Vincent Millay
She is happy where she lies 
With the dust upon her eyes.

She is happy where she lies With the dust upon her eyes.

Edna St. Vincent Millay
A person who publishes a book willfully appears before the populace with his pants down. If it is a good book nothing can hurt him. If it is a bad book nothing can help him.

A person who publishes a book willfully appears before the populace with his pants down. If it is a good book nothing can hurt him. If it is a bad book nothing can help him.

Edna St. Vincent Millay
Gently they go, the beautiful, the tender, the kind; 
Quietly they go, the intelligent, the witty, the brave. 
I know. But I do not approve. And I am not resigned.

Gently they go, the beautiful, the tender, the kind; Quietly they go, the intelligent, the witty, the brave. I know. But I do not approve. And I am not resigned.

Edna St. Vincent Millay
Please give me some good advice in your next letter. I promise not to follow it. (in a letter written while she was in college)

Please give me some good advice in your next letter. I promise not to follow it. (in a letter written while she was in college)

Edna St. Vincent Millay
You are loved. If so, what else matters?

You are loved. If so, what else matters?

Edna St. Vincent Millay