Vincent Millay Quotations

Set the foot down with distrust on the crust of the world -- it is thin.

Life isn't one damn thing after another. It's the same damn thing again and again.

I find it's as hard to live down an early triumph as an early indiscretion.

Pity me that the heart is slow to learn / What the swift mind beholds at every turn.

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

Well, I have lost you; and I lost you fairly;In my own way, and with my full consent.Say what you will, kings in a tumbrel rarelyWent to their deaths more proud than this one went.Some nights of apprehension and hot weepingI will confess; but that's permitted me;Day dried my eyes; I was not one for keepingRubbed in a cage a wing that would be free.If I had loved you less or played you slylyI might have held you for a summer more,But at the cost of words I value highly,And no such summer as the one before.Should I outlive this anguish-and men do-I shall have only good to say of you.

Was it for this I uttered prayers, And sobbed and cursed and kicked the stairs, That now, domestic as a plate, I should retire at half-past eight? Edna St

Down, down, down into the darkness of the grave Gently they go, the beautiful, the tender, the kind; Quietly they go, the intelligent, the witty, the brave. I know. But I do not approve. And I am not resigned.

I've been a wicked girl," said I: "But if I can't be sorry, why, I might as well be glad!

Safe upon the solid rock the ugly houses stand: Come and see my shining palace built upon the sand!

April comes like an idiot, babbling and stewing flowers.

Think not for this, however, the poor treasonOf my stout blood against my staggering brain,I shall remember you with love, or seasonMy scorn with pity - let me make it plain:I find this frenzy insufficient reasonFor conversation when we meet again.