Edna St. Vincent Millay: Quotes about heart

Edna St. Vincent Millay was American poet. Explore interesting quotes on heart.

Edna St. Vincent Millay: 138 quotes9 likes

“I know I am but summer to your heart,
and not the full four seasons of the year.”

Source: I know I am but summer to your heart (Sonnet XXVII)

“The heart can push the sea and land
Farther away on either hand;
The soul can split the sky in two,
And let the face of God shine through.”

Edna St. Vincent Millay

“My heart is warm with friends I make,
And better friends I'll not be knowing,
Yet there isn't a train I wouldn't take,
No matter where it's going.”

Edna St. Vincent Millay

"Travel", st. 3, Second April, 1921
Source: The Selected Poetry

“The world stands out on either side
No wider than the heart is wide”

Edna St. Vincent Millay Renascence

"Renascence" (1912), st. 20, Renascence and Other Poems (1917)
Context: The world stands out on either side
No wider than the heart is wide;
Above the world is stretched the sky, —
No higher than the soul is high.
The heart can push the sea and land
Farther away on either hand;
The soul can split the sky in two,
And let the face of God shine through.
But East and West will pinch the heart
That can not keep them pushed apart;
And he whose soul is flat — the sky
Will cave in on him by and by.

“Pity me that the heart is slow to learn
What the swift mind beholds at every turn.”

Edna St. Vincent Millay

Source: The Harp-Weaver and Other Poems

“I know what my heart is like
Since your love died:
It is like a hollow ledge
Holding a little pool
Left there by the tide,
A little tepid pool,
Drying inward from the edge.”

Edna St. Vincent Millay

Source: Second April

“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

“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)