Edna St Vincent Millay

Edna St Vincent Millay (1892-1950) was a US writer, poet and playwright. She won Pulitzer Prize for The Harp Weaver and Other Poems in 1923.

Wisdom & Quotes

Edna St Vincent Millay (1892 - 1950)

• 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!
- First Fig in 'A Few Figs from Thistles'

• To be grown up is to sit at the table with people who have died, who neither listen nor speak…

- Childhood is the Kingdom Where Nobody Dies, Wine from these Grapes

• Childhood is the kingdom where no one dies.

- title of poem in Wine from these Grapes

• Euclid alone

Has looked on Beauty bare.
Fortunate they
Who, though once only and then
By far away,
Have heard her massive sandal set
On stone.
- Sonnets

• Life is a quest and love a quarrel ...

- 'Weeds', Second April

• Life has no friend ...

- Fatal Interview

• It is not true that life is one damned thing after another - it is one damn thing over and over.

- Letters of Edna St Vincent Millay, edited by Allen R MacDougal

• We were very young, we were very merry -

We went back and forth all night on the ferry.
- Recuerdo

• Man has never been the same since God died.
• A person who publishes a book appears willfully in public with his pants down.

Ivy Compton Burnett