333 Quotes by Edna St. Vincent Millay

I hate people but I love gatherings.

But if I can't be sorry, why, I might as well be glad!

All my life, Following Care along the dusty road, Have I looked back on loveliness and sighed ....

Death devours all lovely things.

The heart grows weary after a little Of what it loved for a little while.

After all my erstwhile dear, my no longer cherished; Need we say it was not love, just because it perished?

let geese Gabble and hiss, but heroes seek release From dusty bondage into luminous air.

I know what my heart is like Since your love died: It is like a hollow ledge Holding a little pool Left there by the tide, A little tepid pool, Drying inward from the edge.

Gently they go, the beautiful, the tender, the kind; Quietly they go, the intelligent, the witty, the brave. I know. But I do not approve. And I am not resigned.