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  • Beautiful as a dandelion-blossom, golden in the green grass, This life can be. Common as a dandelion-blossom, beautiful in the clean grass, not beautiful Because common, beautiful because beautiful, Noble because common, because free.

  • l am not resigned to the shutting away of loving hearts in the hard ground. So it is, and so it will be, for so it has been, time out of mind: Into the darkness they go, the wise and the lovely. Crowned With lilies and with laurel they go; but I am not resigned.

    Wise   Time   Heart  
    Edna St. Vincent Millay (2003). “Edna St. Vincent Millay: Selected Poems”, p.94, Library of America
  • Lord, I do fear Thou'st made the world too beautiful this year My soul is all but out of me-let fall No burning leaf; prithee, let no bird call.

    1917 God's World.
  • That which has quelled me, lives with me, Accomplice in catastrophe.

    Edna St. Vincent Millay (1956). “Collected Poems”, HarperCollins Publishers
  • I am not afraid of lawyers as I used to be. They are lambs in wolves' clothing.

    Edna St. Vincent Millay (1972). “Letters of Edna St. Vincent Millay”
  • And must I then, indeed, Pain, live with you all through my life?-sharing my fire, my bed, Sharing-oh, worst of all things!-the same head?- And, when I feed myself, feeding you too?

    Life  
    Edna St. Vincent Millay (2003). “Edna St. Vincent Millay: Selected Poems”, p.239, Library of America
  • And all the loveliest things there be come simply, so it seems to me.

    Edna St. Vincent Millay (1956). “Collected Poems”, HarperCollins Publishers
  • Love is not all; it is not meat nor drink.

    "Love Is Not All" l. 1 (1931)
  • Need we say it was not love, Now that love is perished?

    'Passer Mortuus Est' (1921)
  • Sweet love, sweet thorn, when lightly to my heart. I took your thrust, whereby I since am slain, And I lie disheveled in the grass apart, A sodden thing bedrenched by tears and rain.

    Edna St. Vincent Millay (1956). “Collected Poems”, HarperCollins Publishers
  • Without music I should wish to die.

    Edna St. Vincent Millay (1972). “Letters of Edna St. Vincent Millay”
  • Thus in the winter stands the lonely tree, Nor knows what birds have vanished one by one, Yet knows its boughs more silent than before

    1923 Harp-Weaver and Other Poems,'Sonnet19: What lips my lips have kissed'.
  • That is my being, the madness of an unaccustomed mood.

    Edna St Vincent, Edna St. Vincent Millay (2013). “The Edna St. Vincent Millay Collection”, p.183, eBookIt.com
  • Life is a quest and love a quarrel

    Life  
    Edna St Vincent, Edna St. Vincent Millay (2013). “The Edna St. Vincent Millay Collection”, p.159, eBookIt.com
  • You see, I am a poet, and not quite right in the head, darling. It’s only that.

  • But you, you foolish girl, you have gone home to a leaky castle across the sea to lie awake in linen smelling of lavender, and hear the nightingale, and long for me.

    Edna St. Vincent Millay (1956). “Collected Poems”, HarperCollins Publishers
  • But she was not made for any man, and she will never be all mine.

    Edna St. Vincent Millay, “Witch-Wife”
  • Spring TO what purpose, April, do you return again? Beauty is not enough. You can no longer quiet me with the redness Of little leaves opening stickily. I know what I know. The sun is hot on my neck as I observe The spikes of the crocus. The smell of the earth is good. It is apparent that there is no death. But what does that signify? Not only under ground are the brains of men Eaten by maggots. 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.

    Edna St. Vincent Millay (2009). “Second April: Easyread Super Large 18pt Edition”, p.1, ReadHowYouWant.com
  • It's not love's going hurts my days But that it went in little ways.

    Edna St. Vincent Millay, “The Spring And The Fall”
  • 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.

  • let geese Gabble and hiss, but heroes seek release From dusty bondage into luminous air.

    Edna St. Vincent Millay (2003). “Edna St. Vincent Millay: Selected Poems”, p.81, Library of America
  • Ah! Up then from the ground sprang I And hailed the earth with such a cry As is not heard save from a man Who has been dead, and lives again. About the trees my arms I wound; Like one gone mad I hugged the ground; I raised my quivering arms on high; I laughed and laughed into the sky.

    Edna St. Vincent Millay (2003). “Edna St. Vincent Millay: Selected Poems”, p.38, Library of America
  • Strange how few, After alls said and done, the things that are Of moment.

    Edna St Vincent, Edna St. Vincent Millay (2013). “The Edna St. Vincent Millay Collection”, p.125, eBookIt.com
  • And her voice is a string of colored beads, Or steps leading into the sea.

    Edna St Vincent, Edna St. Vincent Millay (2013). “The Edna St. Vincent Millay Collection”, p.141, eBookIt.com
  • I dread no more the first white in my hair, Or even age itself, the easy shoe, The cane, the wrinkled hands, the special chair: Time, doing this to me, may alter too My anguish, into something I can bear

    Edna St. Vincent Millay (2003). “Selected Poems”
  • I am not resigned to the shutting away of loving hearts in the hard ground.

    Heart  
    Edna St. Vincent Millay, Frances Schoonmaker (1999). “Edna St. Vincent Millay”, p.30, Sterling Publishing Company, Inc.
  • To be grown up is to sit at the table with people who have died, who neither listen nor speak.

    Edna St. Vincent Millay (1956). “Collected Poems”, HarperCollins Publishers
  • 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.

    Edna St Vincent, Edna St. Vincent Millay (2013). “The Edna St. Vincent Millay Collection”, p.148, eBookIt.com
  • So up I got in anger, And took a book I had, And put a ribbon on my hair To please a passing lad. And, "One thing there's no getting by -- I've been a wicked girl," said I; But if I can't be sorry, why, I might as well be glad!

    Edna St Vincent, Edna St. Vincent Millay (2013). “The Edna St. Vincent Millay Collection”, p.36, eBookIt.com
  • Life has no friend.

    Life  
    Edna St. Vincent Millay (2003). “Edna St. Vincent Millay: Selected Poems”, p.147, Library of America
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