Author: Edna St. Vincent Millay

Quotes

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

Please give me some good advice in your next letter. I promise not to follow it.

Please give me some good advice in your next letter. I promise not to follow it.

- Edna St. Vincent Millay

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.

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.

- Edna St. Vincent Millay

Beauty is whatever gives joy.

Beauty is whatever gives joy.

- 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

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.

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.

- Edna St. Vincent Millay

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

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

- 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

Music my rampart, and my only one.

Music my rampart, and my only one.

- Edna St. Vincent Millay

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