Quotes by Millay, Edna St. Vincent

"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."

Millay, Edna St. Vincent on absence
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"My candle burns at both ends; it will not last the night; but ah, my foes, and oh, my friends -- it gives a lovely light!"

Millay, Edna St. Vincent on extravagance   

"God, I can push the grass apart and lay my finger on Thy heart."

Millay, Edna St. Vincent on god   

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

Millay, Edna St. Vincent on infatuation
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"It's not true that life is one damn thing after another; it's one damn thing over and over."

Millay, Edna St. Vincent on life   

"Parrots, tortoises and redwoods live a longer life than men do; Men a longer life than dogs do; Dogs a longer life than love does."

Millay, Edna St. Vincent on love   

"If I love you Wednesday, What is that to you? I do not love you Thursday -- so much is true."

Millay, Edna St. Vincent on love   

"April comes like an idiot, babbling and strewing flowers."

Millay, Edna St. Vincent on seasons
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"A person who publishes a book appears willfully in public with his pants down."

Millay, Edna St. Vincent on books - reading   

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

Millay, Edna St. Vincent on caution   

"Childhood is the kingdom where nobody dies. Nobody that matters, that is."

Millay, Edna St. Vincent on childhood