Edna St. Vincent Millay

“Oh, think not I am faithful to a vow! Faithless am I save to love's self alone.”

“The soul can split the sky in two and let the face of God shine through.”

“Euclid alone has looked on Beauty bare.”

“Pity me not because the light of day At close of day no longer walks the sky.”

“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!”

“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.”

“It is not true that life is one damn thing after another; it is one damn thing over and over.”

“I know I am but summer to your heart, and not the full four seasons of the year.”

“Love is not all: it is not meat nor drink Nor slumber nor a roof against the rain; Nor yet a floating spar to men that sink.”

“I shall die, but that is all that I shall do for Death.”

“What lips my lips have kissed, and where, and why, I have forgotten, and what arms have lain Under my head till morning.”

“Into the darkness they go, the wise and the lovely. With them take their piety, with them their love.”

“Life must go on, I forget just why.”

“Childhood is the kingdom where nobody dies.”

“Soar, eat ether, see what has never been seen; depart, be lost, but climb.”

“Beauty is whatever gives joy.”

“Where you used to be, there is a hole in the world, which I find myself constantly walking around in the daytime, and falling in at night. I miss you like hell.”

“I will be the gladdest thing under the sun! I will touch a hundred flowers and not pick one.”

“The world stands out on either side no wider than the heart is wide; above the world is stretched the sky, no higher than the soul is high.”

“Safe upon the solid rock the ugly houses stand: Come and see my shining palace built upon the sand!”