333 Quotes by Edna St. Vincent Millay

We were so wholly one I had not thought That we could die apart. I had not thought That I could move,—and you be stiff and still! That I could speak,—and you perforce be dumb! I think our heart-strings were, like warp and woof In some firm fabric, woven in and out; Your golden filaments in fair design Across my duller fibre.

I have loved badly, loved the great Too soon, withdrawn my words too late; And eaten in an echoing hall Alone and from a chipped plate The words that I withdrew too late.

Oh, friend, forget not, when you fain would note In me a beauty that was never mine, How first you knew me in a book I wrote, How first you loved me for a written line....

Soar, eat ether, see what has never been seen; depart, be lost, but climb.

There is no God. But it does not matter. Man is enough.

Safe upon the solid rock the ugly houses stand. Come and see my shining palace built upon the sand!

I, being born a woman and distressed By all the needs and notions of my kind...

O world, I cannot hold thee close enough!

And he whose soul is flat -- the sky Will cave in on him by and by.