Vincent Millay
Vincent Millay
again damn life
Life isn't one damn thing after another. It's the same damn thing again and again.
early hard triumph
I find it's as hard to live down an early triumph as an early indiscretion.
both burns candle friends-or-friendship gives last lovely
My candle burns at both ends; It will not last the night; But ah, my foes, and oh, my friends It gives a lovely light! Edna St
darkness gently grave quietly
Down, down, down into the darkness of the grave Gently they go, the beautiful, the tender, the kind; Quietly they go, the intelligent, the witty, the brave. I know. But I do not approve. And I am not resigned.
might wicked
I've been a wicked girl," said I: "But if I can't be sorry, why, I might as well be glad!
april babbling
April comes like an idiot, babbling and stewing flowers.
built houses palace rock safe shining solid ugly
Safe upon the solid rock the ugly houses stand: Come and see my shining palace built upon the sand!
heart learn mind pity slow swift
Pity me that the heart is slow to learn / What the swift mind beholds at every turn.
children childhood kingdoms
Childhood Is the Kingdom Where Nobody Dies.
grief goes-on forget
Life must go on; I forget just why.
cage cost deaths dried full good held hot kings less lost loved men might nights outlive permitted played proud shall summer value wing words
Well, I have lost you; and I lost you fairly;In my own way, and with my full consent.Say what you will, kings in a tumbrel rarelyWent to their deaths more proud than this one went.Some nights of apprehension and hot weepingI will confess; but that's permitted me;Day dried my eyes; I was not one for keepingRubbed in a cage a wing that would be free.If I had loved you less or played you slylyI might have held you for a summer more,But at the cost of words I value highly,And no such summer as the one before.Should I outlive this anguish-and men do-I shall have only good to say of you.
love night light
My candle burns at both ends; it will not last the night; but ah, my foes, and oh, my friends - it gives a lovely light!
nature flower blooming
I will be the gladdest thing under the sun! I will touch a hundred flowers and not pick one.
god sky two
The soul can split the sky in two and let the face of God shine through.