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“And he whose soul is flat -- the sky
Will cave in on him by and by.”

Edna St. Vincent Millay

Source: Renascence and Other Poems

“When I can make
Of ten small words a rope to hang the world!
"I had you and I have you now no more.”

Edna St. Vincent Millay

Source: Renascence and Other Poems

“I dread no more the first white in my hair,
Or even age itself, the easy shoe,
The cane, the wrinkled hands, the special chair:
Time, doing this to me, may alter too
My anguish, into something I can bear”

Edna St. Vincent Millay

“Beautiful as a dandelion-blossom, golden in the green grass,
This life can be.
Common as a dandelion-blossom, beautiful in the clean grass, not beautiful
Because common, beautiful because beautiful,
Noble because common, because free.”

Edna St. Vincent Millay

Source: Conversation At Midnight

“The undercurrent of my every thought:
To seek you, find you, have you for my own.”

Edna St. Vincent Millay

Source: Collected Poems

“And her voice is a string of colored beads,
Or steps leading into the sea.”

Edna St. Vincent Millay

Source: Renascence and Other Poems

“"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 book A Few Figs from Thistles

From "The Penitent", A Few Figs from Thistles (1922)

“It's little I know what's in my heart,
What's in my mind it's little I know,
But there's that in me must up and start,
And it's little I care where my feet go.”

Edna St. Vincent Millay

"Departure" (1918) from The Harp-Weaver and Other Poems (1923)

“Euclid alone has looked on Beauty bare.
Let all who prate of Beauty hold their peace,
And lay them prone upon the earth and cease
To ponder on themselves, the while they stare
At nothing, intricately drawn nowhere.”

Edna St. Vincent Millay

Sonnet XXII from The Harp-Weaver and Other Poems (1923)