Edna St. Vincent Millay Quotes
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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!
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The longest absence is less perilous to love than the terrible trials of incessant proximity.
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God, I can push the grass apart and lay my finger on Thy heart.
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It's not true that life is one damn thing after another; it's one damn thing over and over.
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The soul can split the sky in two and let the face of God shine through.
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A person who publishes a book willfully appears before the populace with his pants down. If it is a good book nothing can hurt him. If it is a bad book nothing can help him.
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Set the foot down with distrust on the crust of the world - it is thin.
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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.
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Please give me some good advice in your next letter. I promise not to follow it.
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My heart is warm with 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.
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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.
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We are all ruled in what we do by impulses; and these impulses are so organized that our actions in general serve for our self preservation and that of the race.
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Music my rampart, and my only one.
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Safe upon the solid rock the ugly houses stand;Come and see my shining palace built upon the sand!
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Not truth, but faith, it is that keeps the world alive.
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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.
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Euclid alone has looked on Beauty bare.Let all who prate of Beauty hold their peace,And lay them prone upon the earth and ceaseTo ponder on themselves, the while they stareAt nothing, intricately drawn nowhere.
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Beauty is whatever gives joy.
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Childhood is the kingdom where nobody dies. Nobody that matters, that is.
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After all, my earstwhile dear, My no longer cherished, Need we say it was not love, Now that love is perished?
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The young are so old, they are born with their fingers crossed.
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But you are mobile as the veering air, And all your charms more changeful than the tide, Wherefore to be inconstant is no care: I have but to continue at your side. So wanton, light and false, my love, are you, I am most faithless when I most am true.
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Love is not all: it is not meat nor drinkNor slumber nor a roof against the rain;Nor yet a floating spar to men that sinkAnd rise and sink and rise and sink again;Love can not fill the thickened lung with breath,Nor clean the blood, nor set the fractured bone;Yet many a man is making friends with deathEven as I speak, for lack of love alone.
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What the customer demands is last year's model, cheaper. To find out what the customer needs you have to understand what the customer is doing as well as he understands it. Then you build what he needs and you educate him to the fact that he needs it.