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Edna St. Vincent Millay Quotes

Total quotes: 5
“Let all who prate of Beauty hold their peace,
And lay them prone upon the earth and cease
To ponder on themselves, the while they stare
At nothing, intricately drawn nowhere.”
— Edna St. Vincent Millay, Sonnet XXII
Tagged: beauty, Joy, appreciating beauty, Beauty in life, beauty gives joy, Life, sonnet, Poetic
“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, A quote by Edna St. Vincent Millay
Tagged: Missing Someone, Ideologies, Longing, Distance
“You see, I am a poet, and not quite right in the head, darling. It’s only that.”
— Edna St. Vincent Millay, Savage Beauty: The Life of Edna St. Vincent Millay
Tagged: Identity
“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, 21 Absolutely Heartwrenching Quotes On Loss And Grief
Tagged: Grief, Grieving, Loss, Hell, Missing You
“I know I am but summer to your heart,
And not the full four seasons of the year;
And you must welcome from another part
Such noble moods as are not mine, my dear.
No gracious weight of golden fruits to sell
Have I, nor any wise and wintry thing;
And I have loved you all too long and well
To carry still the high sweet breast of Spring.
Wherefore I say: O love, as summer goes,
I must be gone, steal forth with silent drums,
That you may hail anew the bird and rose
When I come back to you, as summer comes.
Else will you seek, at some not distant time,
Even your summer in another clime.”
— Edna St. Vincent Millay, Collected Poems
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