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
love
He that would eat of love must eat it where it hangs.
sad heart love-is
This have I known always: Love is no more than the wide blossom which the wind assails, than the great tide that treads the shifting shore, strewing fresh wreckage gathered in the gales; Pity me that the heart is slow to learn, that the swift mind beholds at every turn.
lovely lovely-things
Death devours all lovely things.
love sad i-miss-you
They say when you are missing someone that they are probably feeling the same, but I don't think it's possible for you to miss me as much as I'm missing you right now
inspirational-love quests and-love
Life is a quest and love a quarrel
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.
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.
love-is slumber meat
Love is not all; it is not meat nor drink.
love love-is needs
Need we say it was not love, Now that love is perished?
death darkness lovely
Death devours all lovely things; Lesbia with her sparrow Shares the darkness--presently Every bed is narrow.
hard-times jewels lovers
O troubled forms, O early love unfortunate and hard, Time has estranged you into a jewel cold and pure
funny inspirational-love hate
I love humanity but I hate people.
relationship summer unrequited-love
I know I am but summer to your heart, and not the full four seasons of the year.