333 Quotes by Edna St. Vincent Millay

I am not a tentative person. Whatever I do, I give up my whole self to it...

A person who publishes a book wilfully appears before the populace with his pants down. –.

If ever I said in grief or pride, I’d tired of honest things, I lied.

The most I ever did for you was to outlive you. But that is much.

So up I got in anger, And took a book I had, And put a ribbon on my hair To please a passing lad. And, “One thing there’s no getting by – I’ve been a wicked girl,” said I; But if I can’t be sorry, why, I might as well be glad!

This summer has been so short, so small. I think that like “Alice” it ate the cake that said “Eat Me”, and dwindled and dwindled until it was so tiny that it ran out through the cracks under the door.

Here’s a song was never sung: Growing old is dying young.

Life is a quest and love a quarrel.

My candle burns at both ends.