Top 160 Edna St. Vincent Millay Quotes (2025 Update)

1. “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

2. “I love humanity but I hate people.”

— Edna St. Vincent Millay

3. “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!”

— Edna St. Vincent Millay

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4. “Life must go on; I forget just why.”

— Edna St. Vincent Millay

5. “I will be the gladdest thing under the sun! I will touch a hundred flowers and not pick one.”

— Edna St. Vincent Millay

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6. “I know, but I do not approve. And I am not resigned.”

— Edna St. Vincent Millay

7. “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

8. “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

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

— Edna St. Vincent Millay

10. “Life must go on, Though good men die.”

— Edna St. Vincent Millay

11. “Pour away despair and rinse the cup. Eat happiness like bread.”

— Edna St. Vincent Millay

12. “It’s not true that life is one damn thing after another; it is one damn thing over and over.”

— Edna St. Vincent Millay

13. “I will come back to you, I swear I will; And you will know me still. I shall be only a little taller Than when I went.”

— Edna St. Vincent Millay

14. “Soar, eat ether, see what has never been seen; depart, be lost, but climb.”

— Edna St. Vincent Millay

15. “Beauty is whatever gives joy.”

— Edna St. Vincent Millay

16. “O world, I cannot hold thee close enough!”

— Edna St. Vincent Millay

17. “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

18. “The soul can split the sky in two and let the face of God shine through.”

— Edna St. Vincent Millay

19. “To be grown up is to sit at the table with people who have died, who neither listen nor speak...”

— Edna St. Vincent Millay

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

— Edna St. Vincent Millay

21. “Love is not all; it is not meat nor drink.”

— Edna St. Vincent Millay

22. “Into the darkness they go, the wise and the lovely.”

— Edna St. Vincent Millay

23. “You see, I am a poet, and not quite right in the head, darling. It’s only that.”

— Edna St. Vincent Millay

24. “Childhood Is the Kingdom Where Nobody Dies.”

— Edna St. Vincent Millay

25. “If I could have two things in one: the peace of the grave, and the light of the sun.”

— Edna St. Vincent Millay

26. “I hate people but I love gatherings.”

— Edna St. Vincent Millay

27. “Upon this gifted age, in its dark hour falls from the sky a meteoric shower of facts; They lie unquestioned, uncombined. Wisdom enough to leech us of our ill is daily spun, But there exists no loom to weave it into fabric.”

— Edna St. Vincent Millay

28. “Thus in the winter stands the lonely tree, Nor knows what birds have vanished one by one, Yet knows its boughs more silent than before.”

— Edna St. Vincent Millay

29. “A grave is such a quiet place.”

— Edna St. Vincent Millay

30. “Life in itself Is nothing, An empty cup, a flight of uncarpeted stairs.”

— Edna St. Vincent Millay

31. “If ever I said in grief or pride, I’d tired of honest things, I lied.”

— Edna St. Vincent Millay

32. “Life is a quest and love a quarrel.”

— Edna St. Vincent Millay

33. “It’s not love’s going hurts my days But that it went in little ways.”

— Edna St. Vincent Millay

34. “The fabric of my faithful love No power shall dim or ravel Whilst I stay here – but oh, my dear, If I should ever travel!”

— Edna St. Vincent Millay

35. “Not Truth, but Faith it is that keeps the world alive.”

— Edna St. Vincent Millay

36. “I, being born a woman and distressed By all the needs and notions of my kind...”

— Edna St. Vincent Millay

37. “Music my rampart, and my only one.”

— Edna St. Vincent Millay

38. “My candle burns at both ends.”

— Edna St. Vincent Millay

39. “There is no shelter in you anywhere.”

— Edna St. Vincent Millay

40. “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

41. “Euclid Alone Has Looked on Beauty Bare.”

— Edna St. Vincent Millay

42. “And all the loveliest things there be come simply, so it seems to me.”

— Edna St. Vincent Millay

43. “There is no God. But it does not matter. Man is enough.”

— Edna St. Vincent Millay

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

— Edna St. Vincent Millay

45. “I only know that summer sang in me A little while, that in me sings no more.”

— Edna St. Vincent Millay

46. “Her lawn looks like a meadow, And if she mows the place She leaves the clover standing And the Queen Anne’s Lace.”

— Edna St. Vincent Millay

47. “And reaching up my hand to try, I screamed to feel it touch the sky.”

— Edna St. Vincent Millay

48. “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

49. “I shall die, but that is all that I shall do for Death; I am not on his pay-roll.”

— Edna St. Vincent Millay

50. “A ghost in marble of a girl you knew Who would have loved you in a day or two.”

— Edna St. Vincent Millay