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Edna St. Vincent Millay Quotes

«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.»
«I am glad that I paid so little attention to good advice; had I abided by it I might have been saved from some of my most valuable mistakes.»
«The longest absence is less perilous to love than the terrible trials of incessant proximity.»
«The soul can split the sky in two and let the face of God shine through.»
«I know I am but summer to your heart, and not the full four seasons of the year.»
«If I love you Wednesday, What is that to you? I do not love you Thursday - so much is true.»
«There is no God. But it does not matter. Man is enough.»
«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.»
«Parrots, tortoises and redwoods live a longer life than men do; Men a longer life than dogs do; Dogs a longer life than love does.»
«God, I can push the grass apart and lay my finger on Thy heart.»

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