Vincent Millay
Vincent Millay
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!
might wicked
I've been a wicked girl," said I: "But if I can't be sorry, why, I might as well be glad!
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
cage cost deaths dried full good held hot kings less lost loved men might nights outlive permitted played proud shall summer value wing words
Well, I have lost you; and I lost you fairly;In my own way, and with my full consent.Say what you will, kings in a tumbrel rarelyWent to their deaths more proud than this one went.Some nights of apprehension and hot weepingI will confess; but that's permitted me;Day dried my eyes; I was not one for keepingRubbed in a cage a wing that would be free.If I had loved you less or played you slylyI might have held you for a summer more,But at the cost of words I value highly,And no such summer as the one before.Should I outlive this anguish-and men do-I shall have only good to say of you.
again damn life
Life isn't one damn thing after another. It's the same damn thing again and again.
early hard triumph
I find it's as hard to live down an early triumph as an early indiscretion.
caution crust distrust foot
Set the foot down with distrust on the crust of the world -- it is thin.
cursed domestic kicked retire uttered
Was it for this I uttered prayers, And sobbed and cursed and kicked the stairs, That now, domestic as a plate, I should retire at half-past eight? Edna St
april babbling
April comes like an idiot, babbling and stewing flowers.
against blood conversation frenzy meet pity poor remember scorn shall staggering
Think not for this, however, the poor treasonOf my stout blood against my staggering brain,I shall remember you with love, or seasonMy scorn with pity - let me make it plain:I find this frenzy insufficient reasonFor conversation when we meet again.
heart learn mind pity slow swift
Pity me that the heart is slow to learn / What the swift mind beholds at every turn.
heart hands sea
The world stands out on either side No wider than the heart is wide; Above the world is stretched the sky, No higher than the soul is high. The heart can push the sea and land Farther away on either hand; The soul can split the sky in two, And let the face of God shine through. But East and West will pinch the heart That can not keep them pushed apart; And he whose soul is flat—the sky Will cave in on him by and by.
men sky mad
Ah! Up then from the ground sprang I And hailed the earth with such a cry As is not heard save from a man Who has been dead, and lives again. About the trees my arms I wound; Like one gone mad I hugged the ground; I raised my quivering arms on high; I laughed and laughed into the sky...