Quotes from Edna St. Vincent Millay

And all the loveliest things there be Come simply, so it seems to me.

Strange how few After all's said and done, the things that are Of moment.

With him for a sire, and her for a dam What should I be, but just what I am?

We think-although of course, now, we very seldom Clearly think- That the other side of War is Peace.

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

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

April, Comes like an idiot, babbling, and strewing flowers.

A person who publishes a book appears willfully in public with his pants down.

I shall die, but that is all that I shall do for Death.

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

Not for the flag Of any land because myself was born there Will I give up my life. But I will love that land where man is free, And that will I defend.

What terrible fear causes Man to address the Void as Thou?

Man has never been the same since God died.

We are all ruled in what we do by impulses; and these impulses are so organized that our actions in general serve for our self preservation and that of the race.

I make bean stalks, I'm A builder, like yourself.

Beauty never slumbers; All is in her name; But the rose remembers The dust from which it came.

Oh, friend, forget not, when you fain would note In me a beauty that was never mine, How first you knew me in a book I wrote, How first you loved me for a written line.

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.

I am waylaid by beauty.

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.

Death devours all lovely things.

Blessed be Death, that cuts in marble What would have sunk to dust!

Into each dance must be packed the panic and ecstasy of her last moment of life, for underneath was death.