Author: Edna St. Vincent Millay

Quotes

The longest absence is less perilous to love than the terrible trials of incessant proximity.

The longest absence is less perilous to love than the terrible trials of incessant proximity.

- Edna St. Vincent Millay

Music my rampart, and my only one.

Music my rampart, and my only one.

- Edna St. Vincent Millay

Beauty is whatever gives joy.

Beauty is whatever gives joy.

- Edna St. Vincent Millay

Not truth, but faith, it is that keeps the world alive.

Not truth, but faith, it is that keeps the world alive.

- Edna St. Vincent Millay

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.

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.

- Edna St. Vincent Millay

I went to Boston fully expecting to be arrested - arrested by a polizia created by a government that my ancestors rebelled to establish.

I went to Boston fully expecting to be arrested - arrested by a polizia created by a government that my ancestors rebelled to establish.

- Edna St. Vincent Millay

God, I can push the grass apart and lay my finger on Thy heart.

God, I can push the grass apart and lay my finger on Thy heart.

- Edna St. Vincent Millay

The soul can split the sky in two and let the face of God shine through.

The soul can split the sky in two and let the face of God shine through.

- Edna St. Vincent Millay

I see things with my own eyes, just as if they were the first eyes that ever saw, and then I set about to tell, as best I can, just what I've seen.

I see things with my own eyes, just as if they were the first eyes that ever saw, and then I set about to tell, as best I can, just what I've seen.

- Edna St. Vincent Millay

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