Vincent Millay
Vincent Millay
again damn life
Life isn't one damn thing after another. It's the same damn thing again and again.
children childhood age
Childhood is not from birth to a certain age and at a certain age. The child is grown, and puts away childish things. Childhood is the kingdom where nobody dies.
lying eye dust
She is happy where she lies With the dust upon her eyes.
book dust broken
Stranger, pause and look; From the dust of ages Lift this little book, Turn the tattered pages, Read me, do not let me die! Search the fading letters finding Steadfast in the broken binding All that once was I!
mean
Guess I'll weep awhile. Guess I won't, I mean.
men religion died
Man has never been the same since God died.
hurt book writing
A person who publishes a book willfully appears before the populace with his pants down. If it is a good book nothing can hurt him. If it is a bad book nothing can help him.
rose ifs
I would blossom if I were a rose.
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
rope world small-words
When I can make Of ten small words a rope to hang the world! "I had you and I have you now no more.
flower heart eye
But far, oh, far as passionate eye can reach, And long, ah, long as rapturous eye can cling, The world is mine: blue hill, still silver lake, Broad field, bright flower, and the long white road A gateless garden, and an open path: My feet to follow, and my heart to hold.
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.
dust long apollo
Dust in an urn long since, dispersed and dead Is great Apollo; and the happier he