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“Please give me some good advice in your next letter. I promise not to follow it. (in a letter written while she was in college)”

Edna St. Vincent Millay

Variant: Please give me some good advice in your next letter. I promise not to follow it.

“Life must go on; I forget just why.”

Edna St. Vincent Millay

“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!”

Edna St. Vincent Millay

“I would blossom if I were a rose.”

Edna St. Vincent Millay

Source: The Lamp and the Bell

“But you, you foolish girl, you have gone home to a leaky castle across the sea to lie awake in linen smelling of lavender, and hear the nightingale, and long for me.”

Edna St. Vincent Millay

“Night falls fast. Today is in the past.”

Edna St. Vincent Millay

“A Poem from Edna St. Vincent Millay:

Grown-up

Was it for this I uttered prayers,
And sobbed and cursed and kicked the stairs,
That now, domestic as a plate,
I should retire at half-past eight?”

Edna St. Vincent Millay

Source: The Selected Poetry

“Guess I'll weep awhile. Guess I won't, I mean.”

Edna St. Vincent Millay

“And must I then, indeed, Pain, live with you
all through my life?-sharing my fire, my bed,
Sharing-oh, worst of all things!-the same head?-
And, when I feed myself, feeding you too?”

Edna St. Vincent Millay

Source: Mine the Harvest

“Safe upon the solid rock the ugly houses stand;
Come and see my shining palace built upon the sand!”

Edna St. Vincent Millay book A Few Figs from Thistles

Source: "Second Fig" from A Few Figs from Thistles (1920)

“Cruel of heart, lay down my song.
Your reading eyes have done me wrong.
Not for you was the pen bitten,
And the mind wrung, and the song written.”

Edna St. Vincent Millay

Source: Collected Poems

“I shall think of you
Whenever I am most happy, whenever I am Most sad, whenever I see a beautiful thing.
You are a burning lamp to me, a flame
The wind cannot blow out, and I shall hold you High in my hand against whatever darkness.”

Edna St. Vincent Millay

Source: Collected Poems

“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.”

Edna St. Vincent Millay

Source: Collected Poems

“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.
Nobody that matters, that is.”

Edna St. Vincent Millay

"Childhood Is the Kingdom Where Nobody Dies," lines 1-4, from Wine from These Grapes (1934)

“The first rose on my rose-tree
Budded, bloomed, and shattered,
During sad days when to me
Nothing mattered.

Grief of grief has drained me clean;
Still it seems a pity
No one saw,—it must have been
Very pretty.”

Edna St. Vincent Millay

Source: Renascence and Other Poems