Edna St. Vincent Millay
Edna St. Vincent Millay
Edna St. Vincent Millaywas an American poet and playwright. She received the Pulitzer Prize for Poetry in 1923, the third woman to win the award for poetry, and was also known for her feminist activism. She used the pseudonym Nancy Boyd for her prose work. The poet Richard Wilbur asserted, "She wrote some of the best sonnets of the century."...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionAuthor
Date of Birth22 February 1892
CountryUnited States of America
truth honesty grief
If ever I said in grief or pride, I'd tired of honest things, I lied.
sorrow littles sin
I had a little sorrow, Born of a little sin.
hero light air
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 In shapes of shifting lineage; let geese Gabble and hiss, but heroes seek release From dusty bondage into luminous air. O blinding hour, O holy, terrible day, When first the shaft into his vision shone Of light anatomized! Euclid alone Has looked on Beauty bare. Fortunate they Who, though once only and then but far away, Have heard her massive sandal set on stone.
friendship hurt heartache
It's not love's going hurts my days But that it went in little ways.
morning rain glasses
Under my head till morning; but the rain, Is full of ghosts tonight, that tap and sigh, Upon the glass and listen for reply....
inspirational-love quests and-love
Life is a quest and love a quarrel
flower smell rose
Heap not on this mound roses that she loved so well; why bewilder her with roses that she cannot see or smell.
wine vines lasts
I drank at every vine, the last was like the first. I came upon no wine so wonderful as thirst.
eye blow long-grass
Ah, I could lay me down in this long grass And close my eyes, and let the quiet wind Blow over me
love beautiful dream
You wrote me a beautiful letter, I wonder if you meant it to be as beautiful as it was. I think you did; for somehow I know that your feeling for me, however slight it is, is of the nature of love... When you tell me to come, I will come, by the next train, just as I am. This is not meekness, be assured; I do not come naturally by meekness; know that it is a proud surrender to You.
love thursday wednesday
If I love you Wednesday, What is that to you? I do not love you Thursday - so much is true.
hate mean equality
Let us not forget such words, and all they mean, as hatred, bitterness, and rancor greed, intolerance, bigotry; let us renew our faith and pledge to man, his right to be himself and free.
funny life damn
It's not true that life is one damn thing after another; it is one damn thing over and over.
age youth aging
Youth, have no pity; leave no farthing here For age to invest in compromise and fear.