333 Quotes by Edna St. Vincent Millay

Need we say it was not love, Now that love is perished?

I only know that summer sang in me A little while, that in me sings no more.

Childhood is the kingdom where nobody dies. Nobody that matters, that is.

I am not resigned to the shutting away of loving hearts in the hard ground.

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

When we are old and these rejoicing veins Are frosty channels to a muted stream, And out of all our burning there remains No feeblest spark to fire us, even in dream, This be our solace: that it was not said When we were young and warm and in our prime, Upon our couch we lay as lie the dead, Sleeping away the unreturning time.

The young are so old, they are born with their fingers crossed.

We think-although of course, now, we very seldom Clearly think- That the other side of War is Peace.

Not Truth, but Faith it is that keeps the world alive.