333 Quotes by Edna St. Vincent Millay

I am not at all in favor of hard work for its own sake; many people who work very hard indeed produce terrible things, and should most certainly not be encouraged.

And reaching up my hand to try, I screamed to feel it touch the sky.

The Englishman foxtrots as he fox-hunts, with all his being, through thickets, through ditches, over hedges, through chiffons, through waiters, over saxophones, to the victorious finish; and who goes home depends on how many the ambulance will accommodate.

You are loved. If so, what else matters?

I shall die, but that is all that I shall do for Death; I am not on his pay-roll.

To a Young Poet Time cannot break the bird's wing from the bird. Bird and wing together Go down, one feather. No thing that ever flew, Not the lark, not you, Can die as others do.

After the feet of beauty fly my own.

I screamed, and--lo!--Infinity Came down and settled over me

[L]ife isn't one thing after another, it's the same thing over and over