Tag: Edna St. Vincent Millay

Life was not so much “one damn thing after another” as “one damn thing over and over”

Edna St. Vincent Millay

Childhood is not from birth to a certain age and at a certain age

The child is grown, and puts away childish things.

Childhood is the kingdom where nobody dies.

Nobody that matters, that is.

Edna St. Vincent Millay

Euclid alone has looked on Beauty bare.

Let all who prate of Beauty hold their peace,

And lay them prone upon the earth and cease

To ponder on themselves, the while they stare

At nothing, intricately drawn nowhere.

Edna St. Vincent Millay

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.

Edna St. Vincent Millay