Vincent Millay
Vincent Millay
ends candle
My candle burns at both ends
beer years skittles
Life isn't all beer and skittles; few of us have touched a skittle in years.
beautiful green golden
Beautiful as a dandelion-blossom golden in the green grass, this life can be.
spring purpose return
To what purpose, April, do you return again? Beauty is not enough.
dust long apollo
Dust in an urn long since, dispersed and dead Is great Apollo; and the happier he
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
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
sports swimming rushing
Marriage...one of the most civilized institutions in the world...But...swimming is one of the most wonderful of sports, and yet there are always some people who cannot swim who insist on going into the water and getting drowned. Many people spoil marriage in a like manner. One should be sure she knows how to be married before rushing into it.
madness mood
That is my being, the madness of an unaccustomed mood.
luxury sometimes
Although we sometimes did without a few of life's necessities, we rarely lacked for its luxuries.
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.
mean headache sexuality
Oh, you mean I'm a homosexual! Of course I am, and heterosexual too, but what's that got to do with my headache?
giving-up passion self
I am not a tentative person. Whatever I do, I give up my whole self to it ...