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
quiet graves quiet-place
A grave is such a quiet place.
flower cups april
Life in itself / Is nothing, / An empty cup, a flight of uncarpeted stairs. / It is not enough that yearly, down this hill, / April / Comes like an idiot, babbling and strewing flowers.
pay dies
I shall die, but that is all that I shall do for Death; I am not on his pay-roll.
thinking rude manners
Please don't think me negligent or rude. I am both, in effect, of course, but please don't think me either.
music principles relentless
I find that I never lose Bach. I don't know why I have always loved him so. Except that he is so pure, so relentless and incorruptible, like a principle of geometry.
hate people gathering
I hate people but I love gatherings.
giving-up passion self
I am not a tentative person. Whatever I do, I give up my whole self to it ...
work people favors
I am not at all in favor of hard work for its own sake; many people who work very hard indeed produce terrible things, and should most certainly not be encouraged.
country rome paris
The younger generation forms a country of its own. It has no geographical boundaries. I've talked with young Hungarians in Budapest, with young Italians in Rome, with young Frenchmen in Paris, and with young people all over. ... These young people are going to do things. They are going to change things.
singers longing
Longing alone is singer to the lute.
madness mood
That is my being, the madness of an unaccustomed mood.
beauty all-things
Beauty in all things-no, we cannot hope for that; but some place set apart for it.
brother may welcome
it may be said of me by Harper & Brothers, that although I reject their proposals, I welcome their advances.
death darkness lovely
Death devours all lovely things; Lesbia with her sparrow Shares the darkness--presently Every bed is narrow.