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~ Edna St. Vincent Millay Quotes ~
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Edna St. Vincent Millay Quotes


An American lyrical poet, playwright and feminist.
Edna St. Vincent Millay (February 22, 1892 – October 19, 1950) was an American lyrical poet, playwright and feminist. She was the third woman to receive the Pulitzer Prize for Poetry, and was known for her activism and her many love affairs. She used the pseudonym Nancy Boyd for her prose work. The poet Richard Wilbur asserted, "She wrote some of the best sonnets of the century."

Here are some famous quotes by Edna St. Vincent Millay.




I love humanity but I hate people.
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« Reply #1 on: May 31, 2014, 08:58:29 AM »
Down you mongrel Death! Back into your kennel!
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Into the darkness they go the wise and the lovely.
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« Reply #3 on: May 31, 2014, 09:15:47 AM »
Not truth but faith it is that keeps the world alive.
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« Reply #4 on: May 31, 2014, 09:16:33 AM »
April Comes like an idiot babbling and strewing flowers.
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« Reply #5 on: May 31, 2014, 09:16:58 AM »
If I ever said in grief or pride I tired of honest things I lied.
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« Reply #6 on: May 31, 2014, 09:17:26 AM »
And all the loveliest things there be Come simply so it seems to me.
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« Reply #7 on: May 31, 2014, 09:17:51 AM »
'Tis not love's going hurts my days but that it went in little ways.
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« Reply #8 on: May 31, 2014, 09:18:14 AM »
Strange how few After all's said and done the things that are Of moment.
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« Reply #9 on: May 31, 2014, 09:18:39 AM »
The soul can split the sky in two and let the face of God shine through.
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« Reply #10 on: May 31, 2014, 09:19:01 AM »
With him for a sire and her for a dam What should I be but just what I am?
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« Reply #11 on: May 31, 2014, 09:19:21 AM »
A person who publishes a book appears willfully in public with his pants down.
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« Reply #12 on: May 31, 2014, 09:19:49 AM »
It is not true that life is one damn thing after another- it's one damn thing over and over.
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« Reply #13 on: May 31, 2014, 09:20:10 AM »
And if I loved you Wednesday well what is that to you? I do not love you Thursday - so much is true.
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« Reply #14 on: May 31, 2014, 09:20:33 AM »
After all my erstwhile dear my no longer cherished need we say it was no love just because it perished?
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