The soul can split the sky in two and let the face of God shine through.
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 g...
EDNA ST. VINCENT MILLAY A person who publishes a book appears willfully in public with his pants down.
EDNA ST. VINCENT MILLAY Oh, oh, you will be sorry for that word!
Give back my book and take my kiss instead.
Was it m...
EDNA ST. VINCENT MILLAY When we are old and these rejoicing veins
Are frosty channels to a muted stream,
And out of a...
EDNA ST. VINCENT MILLAY My candle burns at both ends;
It will not last the night;
But ah, my foes, and oh, my friends...
EDNA ST. VINCENT MILLAY It is not true that is one damn thing after another - it's one damn thing over and over again.
EDNA ST. VINCENT MILLAY Parrots, tortoises and redwoods live a longer life than men do; Men a longer life than dogs do; Dogs...
EDNA ST. VINCENT MILLAY If I love you Wednesday, What is that to you? I do not love you Thursday -- so much is true.
EDNA ST. VINCENT MILLAY They say when you are missing someone that they are probably feeling the same, but I don't think it'...
EDNA ST. VINCENT MILLAY Into the darkness they go, the wise and the lovely.
EDNA ST. VINCENT MILLAY I know I am but summer to your heart, and not the full four seasons of the year.
EDNA ST. VINCENT MILLAY My heart is warm with the friends I make,
And better friends I'll not be knowing,
Yet ther...
EDNA ST. VINCENT MILLAY I know I am but summer to your heart,
And not the full four seasons of the year;
And you m...
EDNA ST. VINCENT MILLAY Where you used to be, there is a hole in the world, which I find myself constantly walking around in...
EDNA ST. VINCENT MILLAY Set the foot down with distrust on the crust of the world -- it is thin.
EDNA ST. VINCENT MILLAY God, I can push the grass apart and lay my finger on Thy heart.
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 ...
EDNA ST. VINCENT MILLAY April comes like an idiot, babbling and strewing flowers.
EDNA ST. VINCENT MILLAY I have loved badly, loved the great
Too soon, withdrawn my words too late;
And eaten in an ech...
EDNA ST. VINCENT MILLAY It's not true that life is one damn thing after another; it is one damn thing over and over.
EDNA ST VINCENT MILLAY Safe upon the solid rock the ugly houses stand: Come and see my shining palace built upon the sand!
EDNA ST. VINCENT MILLAY I find it's as hard to live down an early triumph as an early indiscretion.
EDNA ST. VINCENT MILLAY My candle burns at both ends; it will not last the night; but ah, my foes, and oh, my friends -- i...
EDNA ST. VINCENT MILLAY I will be the gladdest thing under the sun! I will touch a hundred flowers and not pick one.
EDNA ST. VINCENT MILLAY You see, I am a poet, and not quite right in the head, darling. It’s only that.
EDNA ST. VINCENT MILLAY Set the foot down with distrust on the crust of the world - it is thin.
EDNA ST. VINCENT MILLAY It's not true that life is one damn thing after another; it's one damn thing over and over.
EDNA ST. VINCENT MILLAY I will come back to you, I swear I will;
And you will know me still.
I shall be only a lit...
EDNA ST. VINCENT MILLAY The undercurrent of my every thought:
To seek you, find you, have you for my own.
EDNA ST. VINCENT MILLAY After all my erstwhile dear, my no longer cherished; Need we say it was not love, just because it pe...
EDNA ST. VINCENT MILLAY Pity me that the heart is slow to learn What the swift mind beholds at every turn.
EDNA ST. VINCENT MILLAY Where you used to be, there is a hole in the world, which I find myself constantly walking around in...
EDNA ST. VINCENT MILLAY My candle burns at both ends
It will not last the night;
But ah, my foes, and oh, my friends -...
EDNA ST. VINCENT MILLAY Soar, eat ether, see what has never been seen; depart, be lost, but climb.
EDNA ST. VINCENT MILLAY Time Does Not Bring Relief

Time does not bring relief; you all have lied
Who...
EDNA ST. VINCENT MILLAY Please give me some good advice in your next letter. I promise not to follow it.
EDNA ST. VINCENT MILLAY It's not true that life is one damn thing after another; it is one damn thing over and over.
EDNA ST. VINCENT MILLAY Childhood is the kingdom where nobody dies. Nobody that matters, that is.
EDNA ST. VINCENT MILLAY My candle burns at both ends;
It will not last the night;
But ah, my foes, and oh, my frie...
EDNA ST. VINCENT MILLAY What lips my lips have kissed, and where, and why,
I have forgotten, and what arms have lain EDNA ST. VINCENT MILLAY And he whose soul is flat -- the sky
Will cave in on him by and by.
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 g...
EDNA ST. VINCENT MILLAY The longest absence is less perilous to love than the terrible trials of incessant proximity.
EDNA ST. VINCENT MILLAY I've been a wicked girl," said I: "But if I can't be sorry, why, I might as well be glad!
EDNA ST. VINCENT MILLAY April comes like an idiot, babbling and stewing flowers.
EDNA ST. VINCENT MILLAY Life must go on; I forget just why.
EDNA ST. VINCENT MILLAY Well, I have lost you; and I lost you fairly;In my own way, and with my full consent.Say what you wi...
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 giv...
EDNA ST. VINCENT MILLAY Was it for this I uttered prayers, And sobbed and cursed and kicked the stairs, That now, domestic a...
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...
EDNA ST. VINCENT MILLAY Lost in Hell,-Persephone,
Take her head upon your knee;
Say to her, "My dear, my dear,
EDNA ST. VINCENT MILLAY The Englishman foxtrots as he fox-hunts, with all his being, through thickets, through ditches, over...
EDNA ST. VINCENT MILLAY Safe upon the solid rock the ugly houses stand: Come and see my shining palace built upon the sand!
EDNA ST. VINCENT MILLAY Think not for this, however, the poor treasonOf my stout blood against my staggering brain,I shall r...
EDNA ST. VINCENT MILLAY Tea was such a comfort.
EDNA ST. VINCENT MILLAY I am glad that I paid so little attention to good advice; had I abided by it I might have been saved...
EDNA ST. VINCENT MILLAY Life isn't one damn thing after another. It's the same damn thing again and again.
EDNA ST. VINCENT MILLAY Pity me that the heart is slow to learn / What the swift mind beholds at every turn.
EDNA ST. VINCENT MILLAY Life is a quest and love a quarrel ...
EDNA ST. VINCENT MILLAY If I love you Wednesday, What is that to you? I do not love you Thursday - so much is true.
EDNA ST. VINCENT MILLAY It gives a lovely light.
EDNA ST. VINCENT MILLAY It's not true that life is one damn thing after another; it's one damn thing over and over.
EDNA ST. VINCENT MILLAY A person who publishes a book willfully appears before the populace with his pants down. If it is a ...
EDNA ST. VINCENT MILLAY We are all ruled in what we do by impulses; and these impulses are so organized that our actions in ...
EDNA ST. VINCENT MILLAY Down, down, down into the darkness of the grave Gently they go, the beautiful, the tender, the kind;...
EDNA ST. VINCENT MILLAY Beauty is whatever gives joy.
EDNA ST. VINCENT MILLAY Not truth, but faith, it is that keeps the world alive.
EDNA ST. VINCENT MILLAY Well, I have lost you; and I lost you fairly;
In my own way, and with my full consent.
Say...
EDNA ST. VINCENT MILLAY Night falls fast.
Today is in the past.

Blown from the dark hill hither to my door EDNA ST. VINCENT MILLAY I love humanity but I hate people.
EDNA ST. VINCENT MILLAY Few Come This Way

Few come this way; not that the darkness
Deters them, but t...
EDNA ST. VINCENT MILLAY I know I am but summer to your heart, And not the full four seasons of the year;
And you must ...
EDNA ST. VINCENT MILLAY No one but Night, with tears on her dark face, watches beside me in this windy place.
EDNA ST. VINCENT MILLAY Music my rampart, and my only one.
EDNA ST. VINCENT MILLAY TO what purpose, April, do you return again?
Beauty is not enough.
You can no longer qui...
EDNA ST. VINCENT MILLAY Song of a Second April

APRIL this year, not otherwise
Than April of a year ag...
EDNA ST. VINCENT MILLAY Moon, that against the lintel of the west
Your forehead lean until the gate be swung,
Long...
EDNA ST. VINCENT MILLAY After all, my erstwhile dear,
My no longer cherished,
Need we say it was not love,
Ju...
EDNA ST. VINCENT MILLAY Ebb

I know what my heart is like
Since your love died:
It is like a holl...
EDNA ST. VINCENT MILLAY Be to her, Persephone,
All the things I might not be;
Take her head upon your knee.
S...
EDNA ST. VINCENT MILLAY Childhood Is the Kingdom Where Nobody Dies.
EDNA ST. VINCENT MILLAY For men that are afraid to die
Must warm their hands before a lie;
The fire that's built o...
EDNA ST. VINCENT MILLAY Love is Not All

Love is not all: it is not meat nor drink
Nor slumber nor a r...
EDNA ST. VINCENT MILLAY Dirge Without Music

I am not resigned to the shutting away of loving hearts in the...
EDNA ST. VINCENT MILLAY Whirlyball is only the most awesome sport on the planet! It's like bumper cars plus lacrosse mee...
ST. VINCENT The Lilith Fair thing was Bummer Town - hey, hop aboard the marginalizing train. I guess you had peo...
ST. VINCENT In regards to being a fashion aficionado, there's a certain amount of taking yourself seriously ...
ST. VINCENT I grew up around a lot of various religions, so it's a part of my consciousness in a way. Everyt...
ST. VINCENT A song has a life of its own. It's an autonomous thing, separate from your own experience, almos...
ST. VINCENT Fashion, for me, is anything that's aesthetic and beautiful. Art, food, film. It's something...
ST. VINCENT My dad used to love Steely Dan, the Stones, Jethro Tull and all that. There was always Steely Dan go...
ST. VINCENT I've been so entwined with technology since I was about 15, recording myself and multitracking a...
ST. VINCENT Well, I've been recording myself on a computer since I was about 13 or 14. So it's completel...
ST. VINCENT I'm supportive of women, absolutely, and it's so gratifying to have girls come up and say, &...
ST. VINCENT And if I'm honest about it, I was obsessed with Nirvana and Pearl Jam. This is like '92, rig...
ST. VINCENT I was a lusty kid who loved Tennessee Williams.
ST. VINCENT I've always been pretty ravenous about pop culture, highbrow and lowbrow.
ST. VINCENT One of my favourite things about country music is that, at least until recently, you could always co...
ST. VINCENT I think a lot of people who want to be musicians terrify their parents because they don't have a...
ST. VINCENT You will find out that Charity is a heavy burden to carry, heavier than the kettle of soup and the f...
ST. VINCENT DE PAUL Humility is nothing but truth, and pride is nothing but lying.
ST. VINCENT DE PAUL Te dicen que fue algo fortuito para que no te culpes. Pero lo único que oigo es a ellos diciéndome...
KATJA MILLAY His hands are miracles. I can watch them for hours, transforming wood into something it never dreame...
KATJA MILLAY My jealousy is a living thing. Shifting, changing, growing. Like my rage and my mother's regret.
KATJA MILLAY People like to say love is unconditional, but it's not, and even if it was unconditional, it's still...
KATJA MILLAY Do real boys actually call girls baby? I don't have enough experience to know. I do know that if a g...
KATJA MILLAY I live in a world without magic or miracles. A place where there are no clairvoyants of shapeshifter...
KATJA MILLAY Didn't you say she lives in Josh's neighborhood?” Mrs. Leighton asks. I think I actually hear her ...
KATJA MILLAY What did you call her?" she asks but I don't think it's her real question.
"Sunshine," I say, a...
KATJA MILLAY I think I’ll stay in pieces. I can shift them, rearrange, depending on the day, depending on what ...
KATJA MILLAY I stayed in therapy long enough to know that nothing that happened to me was my fault. I didn't do a...
KATJA MILLAY Nothing is perfect. It's not even good yet. But maybe.
KATJA MILLAY Call me Sunshine again, and I will murder you, cocksucker.
KATJA MILLAY I haven’t started counting yet. I wonder if it’s just me or if it’s like that for everybody; t...
KATJA MILLAY I am pressed so hard against the earth by the weight of reality that some days I wonder how I am sti...
KATJA MILLAY There are so many things that can break you if there's nothing to hold you together.
KATJA MILLAY Daylight won’t protect you from anything. Bad things happen all the time; they don’t wait until ...
KATJA MILLAY Everything in me turns on and shuts down at the same time. I am weak and strong. I am terrified and ...
KATJA MILLAY It amazes me how people are so afraid of what can happen in the dark, but they don't give a second t...
KATJA MILLAY The pain is constant, steady, never-ending. It's the only thing I know. I don't want to be awake any...
KATJA MILLAY Sugar has a very special, oversized place on my food pyramid.
KATJA MILLAY You have no reason to trust me.' 'No, but I trust you anyway.
KATJA MILLAY It doesn't matter if you do everything right, if you dress the right way and the right way and follo...
KATJA MILLAY I don't know how to regret it. Because that would mean to regret that I ever met her and I can't mak...
KATJA MILLAY Some things you just have to learn to live with.
KATJA MILLAY I need to know that there even is such a thing as okay, or maybe not just okay, maybe even good, and...
KATJA MILLAY You get halfway through with your life and you realize you haven't done the things you wanted to do ...
KATJA MILLAY Because it's good when you find one that does mean something. Makes all the empty ones worthwhile.
KATJA MILLAY You can't change the rules and think everyone else is just going to keep playing.
KATJA MILLAY I haven't gotten better. I'm not even close to okay. The only thing I've done is to decide to get be...
KATJA MILLAY Maybe nobody knows how. Sometimes it's easier to pretend nothing is wrong than to face the fact that...
KATJA MILLAY I'd watch her, amazed at just how much a person could accomplish fueled by tea and regret.
KATJA MILLAY Good Morning, Sunshine!" Josh F**king Bennett. By now, I'm pretty sure that if I were to find his bi...
KATJA MILLAY He's kissing me. And when he does, part of me is lost. But it's the part that's twisted and mangled ...
KATJA MILLAY It’s about the dream of second chances,” he says finally. He hasn’t raised his eyes from the p...
KATJA MILLAY I’m going to walk over to you,” I say, taking one step at a time in her direction like I’m tal...
KATJA MILLAY I don't know how to say it - after all this time, I'm not even sure that I can - but I have to break...
KATJA MILLAY You know I meant it. I am human. And male. And not remotely blind. Do you want me to say it again? Y...
KATJA MILLAY Josh isn’t in love with me and I’m not in love with him.”
“Sell it to someone who’s b...
KATJA MILLAY And maybe I'm a liar and I do need it, because being kissed by Josh Bennet is kind of like being sav...
KATJA MILLAY What? Sunshine fits you. It's bright and warm and happy. Just. Like. You.
KATJA MILLAY Good morning, Sunshine.
KATJA MILLAY When I look at her now, I think, for just one second, that God doesn't hate me so much after all.
KATJA MILLAY The world should be full of Josh Bennetts. But it’s not. I had the only one. And I threw him away.
KATJA MILLAY When you look at her what do you feel?... Joy, fear, frustration, longing, friendship, anger, need, ...
KATJA MILLAY People who go around advertising their birthdays are douchebags. It's a fact. You can look it up on ...
KATJA MILLAY And if my Sea od Tranquility were real, it would be this place, here, with him.
I don't say any...
KATJA MILLAY Just so you know,” I inform him, “one day, I’m going to get tired of sharing your affection wi...
KATJA MILLAY Emilia," he says, and when he does, it warms me to my soul. "Every day you save me.
KATJA MILLAY We're like mysteries to one another. Maybe if I can solve him and he can solve me, we can explain ea...
KATJA MILLAY Maybe one day you'll come back. Maybe you never will and that'll suck, but you can't keep doing this...
KATJA MILLAY I live in a world without magic or miracles. A place where there are no clairvoyants or shapeshifter...
KATJA MILLAY I know at that moment what he's given me and it isn't a chair. It's an invitation, a welcome, the kn...
KATJA MILLAY I wished my mother was here tonight, which is stupid, because it’s an impossible wish.” He shrug...
KATJA MILLAY But you can only go so long being angry before you learn to hate.
KATJA MILLAY In every question and every remark tossed back and forth between lovers who have not played out the ...
EDNA O'BRIEN Countries are either mothers or fathers, and engender the emotional bristle secretly reserved for ei...
EDNA O'BRIEN I have some women friends but I prefer men. Don't trust women. There is a built-in competition b...
EDNA O'BRIEN I am obsessive, also I am industrious. Besides, the time when you are most alive and most aware is i...
EDNA O'BRIEN The vote means nothing to women. We should be armed.
EDNA O'BRIEN Writers really live in the mind and in hotels of the soul.
EDNA O'BRIEN Recollection is not something that I can summon up, it simply comes and I am the servant of it.
EDNA O'BRIEN My hand does the work and I don't have to think; in fact, were I to think, it would stop the flo...
EDNA O'BRIEN Writing is like carrying a fetus.
EDNA O'BRIEN Any garment which is cut to fit you is much more becoming, even if it is not so splendid as a garmen...
EDNA FERBER A woman can look both moral and exciting... if she also looks as if it was quite a struggle.
EDNA FERBER Being an old maid is like death by drowning, a really delightful sensation after you cease to strugg...
EDNA FERBER Writers should be read but not seen. Rarely are they a winsome sight.
EDNA FERBER Life can't defeat a writer who is in love with writing, for life itself is a writer's lover ...
EDNA FERBER A stricken tree, a living thing, so beautiful, so dignified, so admirable in its potential longevity...
EDNA FERBER A closed mind is a dying mind.
EDNA FERBER It's terrible to realize you don't learn how to live until you're ready to die, and then...
EDNA FERBER Living the past is a dull and lonely business; looking back strains the neck muscles, causing you to...
EDNA FERBER Big doesn't necessarily mean better. Sunflowers aren't better than violets.
EDNA FERBER The vote means nothing to women. We should be armed. -Edna O'Brien.
EDNA O'BRIEN Wasn't marriage, like life, unstimulating and unprofitable and somewhat empty when too well ordered ...
EDNA FERBER Our system is not one of justice, but of law.
EDNA BUCHANAN In every question and every remark tossed back and forth between lovers who have not played out the ...
EDNA O'BRIEN Life cannot defeat a writer who is in love with writing; for life itself is a writer's love until de...
EDNA FERBER Only amateurs say that they write for their own amusement. Writing is not an amusing occupation. It ...
EDNA FERBER A woman can look both moral and exciting -- if she also looks as if it was quite a struggle.
EDNA FERBER America -- rather, the United States -- seems to me to be the Jew among the nations. It is resourcef...
EDNA FERBER Roast Beef, medium, is not only a food. It is a philosophy. Seated at Life's Dining Table, with the ...
EDNA FERBER I am not belittling the brave pioneer men but the sunbonnet as well as the sombrero has helped to se...
EDNA FERBER I'm an Irish Catholic and I have a long iceberg of guilt.
EDNA O'BRIEN Christmas isn't a season. It's a feeling.
EDNA FERBER But always, to her, red and green cabbages were to be jade and burgundy, chrysoprase and prophyry. L...
EDNA FERBER Roast beef, medium, is not only a food. It is a philosophy.
EDNA FERBER In a way winter is the real spring, the time when the inner things happen, the resurge of nature.
EDNA O'BRIEN If American politics are too dirty for women to take part in, there's something wrong with Ameri...
EDNA FERBER Big doesn't necessarily mean better. Sunflowers aren't better than violets.
EDNA FERBER True friends are those who really know you but love you anyway.
EDNA BUCHANAN Perhaps too much of everything is as bad as too little.
EDNA FERBER Christmas isn't a season. It's a feeling.
EDNA FERBER A stricken tree, a living thing, so beautiful, so dignified, so admirable in its potential longevity...
EDNA FERBER America / rather, the United States / seems to me to be the Jew among the nations. It is resourceful...
EDNA FERBER I think that in order to write really well and convincingly, one must he somewhat poisoned by emotio...
EDNA FERBER A woman can look both moral and exciting - if she also looks as if it were quite a struggle
EDNA FERBER When anyone asks me about the Irish character, I say look at the trees. Maimed, stark and misshapen,...
EDNA O'BRIEN