Quotes by : Edna St. Vincent Millay

My heart is warm with the friends I make And better friends I'll not be knowing Yet there isn't a train....

And all at once the heavy nightFell from my eyes and I could see, --A drenched and dripping apple-tree,A....

I will be the gladdest thing under the sun! I will touch a hundred flowers and not pick one.

Music, my rampart and my only one.

Into each dance must be packed the panic and ecstasy of her last moment of life, for underneath was death.....

Lie down beside these watersThat bubble from the spring;Hear in the desert silenceThe desert sparrow....

Oh, friend, forget not, when you fain would noteIn me a beauty that was never mine,How first you knew....

Now goes under, and I watch it go under, the sunThat will not rise again.Today has seen the setting,....

Still must the poet as of old,In barren attic bleak and cold,Starve, freeze, and fashion verses toSuch....

The mind, at length bereftOf thinking and its pain,Will soon disperse again,And nothing will remain:No,....