333 Quotes by Edna St. Vincent Millay

O troubled forms, O early love unfortunate and hard, Time has estranged you into a jewel cold and pure.

Life isn’t all beer and skittles; few of us have touched a skittle in years.

Earth does not understand her child, Who from the loud gregarious town Returns, depleted and defiled, To the still woods, to fling him down.

But you were something more than young and sweet And fair, – and the long year remembers you.

Please don’t think me negligent or rude. I am both, in effect, of course, but please don’t think me either.

The only people I really hate are servants. They’re not really human beings at all.

My god is all gods in one. When I see a beautiful sunset, I worship the god of Nature; when I see a hidden action brought to light, I worship the god of Truth; when I see a bad man punished and a good man go free, I worship the god of Justice; when I see a penitent forgiven, I worship the god of Mercy.

Not truth, but faith, it is that keeps the world alive.

I see things with my own eyes, just as if they were the first eyes that ever saw, and then I set about to tell, as best I can, just what I've seen.