Edna St Vincent Millay Quotes

“Sometimes loneliness makes the loudest noise.”
― Aaron Ben-Ze'ev

“Night falls fast. Today is the past.”
― John Green, Looking for Alaska

“There's an Edna St. Vincent Millay poem that's been rumbling around inside me ever since I first read it, and part of it goes: 'Blown from the dark hill hither to my door/ Three flakes, then four/ Arrive, then many more.' You can count the first three flakes, and the fourth. Then language fails, and you have to settle in and try to survive the blizzard”
― John Green, Turtles All the Way Down

“She was one of those women whose features are not perfect and who in their moments of dimness may not seem even pretty, but who, excited by the blood or the spirit, become almost supernaturally beautiful.”
― Edmund Wilson

“But, sure, the sky is big, I said;
Miles and miles above my head;
So here upon my back I'll lie
And look my fill into the sky.
And so I looked, and, after all,
The sky was not so very tall.
The sky, I said, must somewhere stop,
And — sure enough! — I see the top!
The sky, I thought, is not so grand;
I 'most could touch it with my hand!
And reaching up my hand to try,
I screamed to feel it touch the sky.”
― Edna St. Vincent Millay, Renascence and Other Poems

“How shall I know, unless I go
To Cairo and Cathay,
Whether or not this blessed spot
Is blest in every way?

Now it may be, the flower for me
Is this beneath my nose;
How shall I tell, unless I smell
The Carthaginian rose?

The fabric of my faithful love
No power shall dim or ravel
Whilst I stay here,—but oh, my dear,
If I should ever travel!”
― Edna St. Vincent Millay

“All right,
Go ahead!
What's in a name?
I guess I'll be locked into
As much as I'm locked out of!”
― Edna St. Vincent Millay, A Few Figs from Thistles

“But there comes to birth no common spawn
From the love of a priest for a leprechaun,
And you never have seen
and you never will see
Such things as the things that swaddled me!”
― Edna St. Vincent Millay, A Few Figs from Thistles

“Ngtweet soal kegelapan mendadak inget Edna St. Vincent, dia bilang “Into the darkness they go, the wise and the lovely” yang berarti tahu dadakan digoreng garing itu tidak ada di malam hari.”
― Vergi Crush