333 Quotes by Edna St. Vincent Millay

I've written so many verses and keep on writing so many more that I became afraid that if I didn't write them into one big book, I might forget some of them.

Some of us have been thinking and talking too long without doing anything. Poems are perfect; picketing, sometimes, is better.

I went to Boston fully expecting to be arrested - arrested by a polizia created by a government that my ancestors rebelled to establish.

It is high time we found out about this man Cummings. Let us give him every opportunity to show us at once whether he is a genius, a charlatan, or a congenital defective - and get him off our minds.

I'm so tired of hearing about 'Renascence,' I'm nearly dead. I find it's as hard to live down an early triumph as an early indiscretion.

Set the foot down with distrust on the crust of the world - it is thin.

They say when you are missing someone that they are probably feeling the same, but I don't think it's possible for you to miss me as much as I'm missing you right now.

It is not true that life is one damn thing after another: it's one damn thing over and over.

What lips my lips have kissed, and where, and why, / I have forgotten, and what arms have lain / Under my head till morning.