When anyone asks me about the Irish character, I say look at the trees. Maimed, stark and misshapen, but ferociously tenacious.
Edna O'Brien
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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.
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EDNA FERBER Writers should be read but not seen. Rarely are they a winsome sight.
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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.
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EDNA FERBER Our system is not one of justice, but of law.
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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...
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EDNA FERBER Our system is not one of justice, but of law
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EDNA FERBER We had no clue what was happening, what it was. In fact, if it happened again, I'm not sure I'd know...
EDNA BEECHRAFT Friends are the family we choose for ourselves
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EDNA O'BRIEN In every question and every remark tossed back and forth between lovers who have not played out the ...
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EDNA O'BRIEN Inebriations of love, shadows of love, fantasies of love, but never yet the one true love
EDNA O'BRIEN I'm an Irish Catholic and I have a long iceberg of guilt
EDNA O'BRIEN Living the past is a dull and lonely business; looking back strains the neck muscles, causes you to ...
EDNA FERBER Perhaps too much of everything is as bad as too little
EDNA FERBER Life can't ever really defeat a writer who is in love with writing, for life itself is a writer's lo...
EDNA FERBER Your idea of bliss is to wake up on a Monday morning knowing you haven't a single engagement for the...
EDNA FERBER Afghan Girl
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EDNA STEWART It sounds so far away and different. I like different places. I like any places that isn't here.
EDNA FERBER A whole roomful of Jews is like a charged battery. The vitality sparks seem to fly, and frequently t...
EDNA FERBER It had hailed and it was just green, it was just absolutely green out there. I could hear the stuff ...
EDNA BEECHRAFT Basically, what we do is all fresh.
EDNA STEWART Because we put a lot of love in our biscuits, we take a lot of time and patience with 'em, and I hav...
EDNA STEWART Dr. King was always, you know, we were glad to see him come to Chicago. I mostly catered when I star...
EDNA STEWART This is bigger than the three of us. We do not want to blow this ... bailing out is not an option.
EDNA SMITH And they want the church to show them a better way in which to live.
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EDNA SMITH We're not the owner of the airport. The town is the owner and we're going to defer that decision to ...
EDNA RUANO That's good news for the Buffalo market because it shows demand is building for our cargo service an...
EDNA RUANO Our schedule planning folks are always looking at the markets we serve, and if we see the demand, we...
EDNA RUANO This is a good sign for Buffalo and the strength of the market.
EDNA RUANO Buffalo has been a growth market for us and now when expect it to be on the cargo side.
EDNA RUANO From 8:30 a.m. to noon, Southwest was closed for business due to fog.
EDNA RUANO We have earned the reputation of providing Latino professionals with the opportunity to find meaning...
EDNA RODRIGUEZ I got married here. I baptized my kids here. This is too much. I'm heartbroken.
EDNA RODRIGUEZ My kids are devastated. They were crying.
EDNA RODRIGUEZ It was wonderful. It was cold and wet, but it didn't stop anyone. We're definitely doing it again ne...
EDNA PIERCE You have to preserve your history.
EDNA PIERCE Not only are we showing pictures that we have that day, but we want people to bring in their old pic...
EDNA PIERCE She was a great cat, and I will miss her tremendously.
EDNA HENKE She was a gem, so sweet.
EDNA HENKE So far, everything is the same as in the old days. But we don't know that we will have the money for...
EDNA DOYON We've had unbelievable support from the businesses.
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EDNA BEECHRAFT Fashion can be bought. Style one must possess.
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The moon has filled her horn
And in the solemn night I watc...
EDNA DEAN PROCTER I think of the garden after the rain;
And hope to my heart comes singing,
"At morn the cherry-...
EDNA DEAN PROCTER Never be afraid to laugh at yourself, after all, you could be missing out on the joke of the century...
DAME EDNA EVERAGE Fashion is general. Style is individual.
EDNA WOOLMAN CHASE Fashion can be bought. Style one must possess.
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DAME EDNA EVERAGE I know body hair bothers some women, but a lot of men like a fluffy partner.
DAME EDNA EVERAGE The fasts are done; the Aves said;
The moon has filled her horn
And in the solemn night I watch
Befo...
EDNA DEAN PROCTOR I think of the garden after the rain;
And hope to my heart comes singing,
At morn the cherry-blooms ...
EDNA DEAN PROCTOR 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 In our deepest moments we say the most inadequate things.
EDNA O'BRIEN 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 I love humanity, but I hate people.
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 Darkness is drawn to light, but light does not know it; light must absorb the darkness and therefore...
EDNA O'BRIEN 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 Fiction should be in its way subversive. I don't think books should be neat or gentle or genteel or ...
EDNA O'BRIEN 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