1892-1950, American Poet
A person who publishes a book appears willfully in public with his pants down.
Edna St. Vincent Millay – [Books and Reading]
April comes like an idiot, babbling and stewing flowers.
Edna St. Vincent Millay – [Seasons]
Childhood is the kingdom where nobody dies. Nobody that matters, that is.
Edna St. Vincent Millay – [Childhood]
God, I can push the grass apart and lay my finger on Thy heart.
Edna St. Vincent Millay – [God]
I know I am but summer to your heart, and not the full four seasons of the year.
Edna St. Vincent Millay – [Infatuation]
If I love you Wednesday, What is that to you? I do not love you Thursday — so much is true.
Edna St. Vincent Millay – [Love]
It's not true that life is one damn thing after another; it's one damn thing over and over.
Edna St. Vincent Millay – [Life and Living]
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 – [Extravagance]
Parrots, tortoises and redwoods live a longer life than men do; Men a longer life than dogs do; Dogs a longer life than love does.
Edna St. Vincent Millay – [Love]
Set the foot down with distrust on the crust of the world — it is thin.
Edna St. Vincent Millay – [Caution]
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 – [Absence]