Edna St. Vincent Millay

Author

United States

1892 - 1950

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I see things with my own eyes, just as if they were the first eyes that ever saw, and then I set about to tell, as best I can, just what I've seen.
Edna St. Vincent Millay
Set the foot down with distrust on the crust of the world - it is thin.
Edna St. Vincent Millay
The longest absence is less perilous to love than the terrible trials of incessant proximity.
Edna St. Vincent Millay
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
The soul can split the sky in two and let the face of God shine through.
Edna St. Vincent Millay
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.
Edna St. Vincent Millay
I went to Boston fully expecting to be arrested - arrested by a polizia created by a government that my ancestors rebelled to establish.
Edna St. Vincent Millay
What the customer demands is last year's model, cheaper. To find out what the customer needs you have to understand what the customer is doing as well as he understands it. Then you build what he needs and you educate him to the fact that he needs it.
Edna St. Vincent Millay
Some of us have been thinking and talking too long without doing anything. Poems are perfect; picketing, sometimes, is better.
Edna St. Vincent Millay
Beauty is whatever gives joy.
Edna St. Vincent Millay