A person who publishes a book willfully appears before the populace with his pants down. If it is a good book nothing can hurt him. If it is a bad book nothing can help him. - Edna St. Vincent Millay
After all my erstwhile dear, my no longer cherished; Need we say it was not love, just because it perished? - Edna St. Vincent Millay
Oh, friend, forget not, when you fain would noteIn 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.... - Edna St. Vincent Millay
My candle burns at both endsIt will not last the night;But ah, my foes, and oh, my friends -It gives a lovely light. - Edna St. Vincent Millay
I love humanity, but I hate people. - Edna St. Vincent Millay
No one but Night, with tears on her dark face, watches beside me in this windy place. - Edna St. Vincent Millay
Where you used to be, there is a hole in the world, which I find myself constantly walking around in the daytime, and falling in at night. I miss you like hell. - Edna St. Vincent Millay
Catch from the board of beauty/ Such careless crumbs as fall. - Edna St. Vincent Millay
I would I were alive again to kiss the fingers of the rain. - Edna St. Vincent Millay
I am glad that I paid so little attention to good advice; had I abided by it I might have been saved from some of my most valuable mistakes. - Edna St. Vincent Millay
Music, my rampart and my only one. - Edna St. Vincent Millay
Where you used to be, there is a hole in the world, which I find myself constantly walking around in the daytime, and falling into at night. I miss you like hell. - Edna St. Vincent Millay
Please give me some good advice in your next letter. I promise not to follow it. - Edna St. Vincent Millay
Childhood is not from birth to a certain age and at a certain age. The child is grown, and puts away childish things. Childhood is the kingdom where nobody dies. - Edna St. Vincent Millay
A person who publishes a book appears willfully in public eye with his pants down. - Edna St. Vincent Millay
I do not think there is a woman in whom the roots of passion shoot deeper than in me. - Edna St. Vincent Millay
It's not true that life is one damn thing after another; it is one damn thing over and over. - Edna St. Vincent Millay
Soar, eat ether, see what has never been seen; depart, be lost, but climb. - Edna St. Vincent Millay
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 - Edna St. Vincent Millay
Into the darkness they go, the wise and the lovely. - Edna St. Vincent Millay
I know I am but summer to your heart, and not the full four seasons of the year. - Edna St. Vincent Millay