Edna St. Vincent Millay Quotes about Life

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Beauty is whatever gives joy.

Edna St. Vincent Millay

Life, Beauty, Giving

It's not true that life is one damn thing after another; it is one damn thing over and over.

Edna St. Vincent Millay

Funny, Life, Existence

Letter to Arthur Davison Ficke, 24 Oct. 1930 See Modern Proverbs 52

Life is a quest and love a quarrel

Edna St. Vincent Millay

Life, Inspirational Love, And Love

Edna St Vincent, Edna St. Vincent Millay (2013). “The Edna St. Vincent Millay Collection”, p.159, eBookIt.com

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

Edna St. Vincent Millay

Life, Wise, Wisdom

Edna St. Vincent Millay, Frances Schoonmaker (1999). “Edna St. Vincent Millay”, p.30, Sterling Publishing Company, Inc.

And must I then, indeed, Pain, live with you all through my life?-sharing my fire, my bed, Sharing-oh, worst of all things!-the same head?- And, when I feed myself, feeding you too?

Edna St. Vincent Millay

Life, Pain, Fire

Edna St. Vincent Millay (2003). “Edna St. Vincent Millay: Selected Poems”, p.239, Library of America

Love is not all: it is not meat nor drink Nor slumber nor a roof against the rain; Nor yet a floating spar to men that sink And 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 death Even as I speak, for lack of love alone.

Edna St. Vincent Millay

Life, Rain, Love Is

"Love Is Not All" l. 1 (1931)

Life in itself Is nothing, An empty cup, a flight of uncarpeted stairs.

Edna St. Vincent Millay

Life, Cups, Flight

Edna St Vincent, Edna St. Vincent Millay (2013). “The Edna St. Vincent Millay Collection”, p.148, eBookIt.com

Life has no friend.

Edna St. Vincent Millay

Life, No Friends

Edna St. Vincent Millay (2003). “Edna St. Vincent Millay: Selected Poems”, p.147, Library of America

Life goes on forever like the gnawing of a mouse.

Edna St. Vincent Millay

Life, Forever, Goes On

Edna St. Vincent Millay (2007). “The Collected Poetry of Edna St. Vincent Millay”, p.7, Filiquarian Publishing, LLC.

How strange a thing is death, bringing to his knees, bringing to his antlers The buck in the snow . . . Life, looking out attentive from the eyes of the doe.

Edna St. Vincent Millay

Life, Eye, Snow

Edna St. Vincent Millay (2003). “Edna St. Vincent Millay: Selected Poems”, p.93, Library of America