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
feet my-own
After the feet of beauty fly my own.
hate class people
The only people I really hate are servants. They're not really human beings at all.
truth honesty grief
If ever I said in grief or pride, I'd tired of honest things, I lied.
lovely lovely-things
Death devours all lovely things.
funny life damn
It's not true that life is one damn thing after another; it is one damn thing over and over.
love dog men
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.
inspirational-love quests and-love
Life is a quest and love a quarrel
running singing bud
On and on eternally Shall your altered fluid run, Bud and bloom and go to seed; But your singing days are done
beauty
I am waylaid by beauty.
lonely winter bird
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
love-is slumber meat
Love is not all; it is not meat nor drink.
heart feet mind
It's little I know what's in my heart,What's in my mind it's little I know,But there's that in me must up and start,And it's little I care where my feet go.
one-thing one-thing-after-another
[L]ife isn't one thing after another, it's the same thing over and over
two light sun
If I could have two things in one: the peace of the grave, and the light of the sun.