Vincent Millay
Vincent Millay
again damn life
Life isn't one damn thing after another. It's the same damn thing again and again.
life
It's not true that life is one damn thing after another; it's one damn thing over and over.
life no-friends
Life has no friend ...
funny life damn
It's not true that life is one damn thing after another; it is one damn thing over and over.
life rain love-is
Love is not all: it is not meat nor drink Nor slumber nor a roof against the rain; Nor yet a floating spar to men that sink And rise and sink and rise and sink again; Love can not fill the thickened lung with breath, Nor clean the blood, nor set the fractured bone; Yet many a man is making friends with death Even as I speak, for lack of love alone.
life forever goes-on
Life goes on forever like the gnawing of a mouse.
life eye snow
How strange a thing is death, bringing to his knees, bringing to his antlers The buck in the snow . . . Life, looking out attentive from the eyes of the doe.
life cups flight
Life in itself Is nothing, An empty cup, a flight of uncarpeted stairs.
life wise wisdom
Into the darkness they go, the wise and the lovely.
life pain self
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?
might wicked
I've been a wicked girl," said I: "But if I can't be sorry, why, I might as well be glad!
built houses palace rock safe shining solid ugly
Safe upon the solid rock the ugly houses stand: Come and see my shining palace built upon the sand!
darkness gently grave quietly
Down, down, down into the darkness of the grave Gently they go, the beautiful, the tender, the kind; Quietly they go, the intelligent, the witty, the brave. I know. But I do not approve. And I am not resigned.
both burns candle friends-or-friendship gives last lovely
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