Walter Ralston Martin Quotes


I drank at every vine. The last was like the first.I came upon no wine So wonderful as thirst. Edna St. Vincent Millay Alcohol 124
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. Edna St. Vincent Millay Childhood 109
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. Edna St. Vincent Millay Broken Heart 109
I will be the gladdest thing under the sun I will touch a hundred flowers and not pick one. Edna St. Vincent Millay Flowers 94
I dread no more the first white in my hair Or even age itself the easy shoe The cane the wrinkled hands the special chair Time doing this to me may alter too My anguish into something I can bear Edna St. Vincent Millay Old age 90
I have loved badly, loved the greatToo soon, withdrawn my words too late;And eaten in an echoing hallAlone and from a chipped plateThe words that I withdrew too late. Edna St. Vincent Millay Regret 89
April comes like an idiot, babbling and strewing flowers. Edna St. Vincent Millay Seasons 86
Set the foot down with distrust on the crust of the world -- it is thin. Edna St. Vincent Millay Caution 86
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 Ardor 82
Childhood is the kingdom where nobody dies. Edna St. Vincent Millay Children 75
I know I am but summer to your heart, and not the full four seasons of the year. Edna St. Vincent Millay Seasons 71
God, I can push the grass apart and lay my finger on Thy heart. Edna St. Vincent Millay God 69
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. Edna St. Vincent Millay Love 67
Beauty is whatever gives joy. Edna St. Vincent Millay beauty 65
I love humanity but I hate people. Edna St. Vincent Millay New Collection 65
After all my erstwhile dear, my no longer cherished; Need we say it was not love, just because it perished? Edna St. Vincent Millay Heartbreak 64
If I love you Wednesday, What is that to you? I do not love you Thursday -- so much is true. Edna St. Vincent Millay Love 60
The first rose on my rosetree Budded bloomed and shattered During sad days when to me Nothing mattered. Grief or grief has drained me clean Still it seems a pity No one sawit must have been Very pretty. Edna St. Vincent Millay Grief 59
Childhood is the kingdom where nobody dies. Nobody that matters, that is. Edna St. Vincent Millay Youth 56
The soul can split the sky in two and let the face of God shine through. Edna St. Vincent Millay Face 54
A person who publishes a book appears willfully in public with his pants down. Edna St. Vincent Millay Reading 52
Music my rampart, and my only one. Edna St. Vincent Millay Music 50
God, I can push the grass apart And lay my finger on Thy heart! Edna St. Vincent Millay God 47
Not truth, but faith, it is that keeps the world alive. Edna St. Vincent Millay Faith 46
Please give me some good advice in your next letter. I promise not to follow it. Edna St. Vincent Millay Advice 46
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 Sky 45
All the good i know was taught me out of two gray eyes a long time ago. Edna St. Vincent Millay Uncategorized 43
I have loved badly, loved the great too soon, withdrawn my words too late. Edna St. Vincent Millay Love 41
Lost in HellPersephone Take her head upon your knee Say to her My dear my dear It is not so dreadful here. Edna St. Vincent Millay Hell 36
They say when you are missing someone that they are probably feeling the same but I dont think its possible for you to miss me as much as Im missing you right now Edna St. Vincent Millay Longing 35
I do not think there is a woman in whom the roots of passion shoot deeper than in me. Edna St. Vincent Millay Passion 34
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. Edna St. Vincent Millay Appears 33
Life is a quest and love a quarrel … Edna St. Vincent Millay Life 33
My heart is warm with the friends I make And better friends Ill not be knowing Yet there isnt a train I wouldnt take No matter where its going. Edna St. Vincent Millay Friends 32
Beauty is whatever gives joy. Edna St. Vincent Millay Beauty 31
I know what my heart is like Since your love died: It is like a hollow ledge Holding a little pool Left there by the tide, A little tepid pool, Drying inward from the edge. Edna St. Vincent Millay Ebb 30
Degraded bird I give you back your eyes forever ascend now whither you are tossed Forsake this wrist forsake this rhyme Soar eat ether see what has never been seen depart be lost But climb. Edna St. Vincent Millay Growth 29
You see I am a poet and not quite right in the head darling. Its only that. Edna St. Vincent Millay Poet 28
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 Edna St. Vincent Millay Death 27
Into the darkness they go the wise and the lovely. Edna St. Vincent Millay Metaphor 27
My candle burns at both its ends; It will not last the night; But oh, my foes, and oh, my friends – It gives a lovely light. Edna St. Vincent Millay Life 27
I dread no more the first white in my hair, Or even age itself, the easy shoe, The cane, the wrinkled hands, the special chair. Time, doing this to me, may alter too. My sorrow, into something I can bear. Edna St. Vincent Millay Age 25
Childhood is the kingdom where no one dies. Edna St. Vincent Millay Children 25

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