Edna St. Vincent Millay

Edna St. Vincent Millay

22-Feb-1892


United States


Poet

Edna St. Vincent Millay was one of the most respected American poets of the 20th century. Millay was known for her hard reading and women's perspectives. She wrote Renascence, one of her most famous poems, and the book The Ballad of the Harp Weaver, in which she won the Pulitzer Prize in 1923. In her first poem Fig. it's over. "Millay died in 1950 on his farm in Austerlitz, New York.

QUOTES BY Edna St. Vincent Millay


"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"

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

"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."

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

"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 candle burns at both ends; It will not last the night; But ah, my foes, and oh, my friends— It gives a lovely light!"

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

"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."

"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."

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