Edna St. Vincent Millay

I shall think of you

— Edna St. Vincent Millay

I went to Boston fully expecting to be arrested - arrested by a polizia created by a government that my ancestors rebelled to establish.

— Edna St. Vincent Millay

Oh, friend, forget not, when you fain would note

— Edna St. Vincent Millay

TO what purpose, April, do you return again?

— Edna St. Vincent Millay

After all, my erstwhile dear,

— Edna St. Vincent Millay

I will come back to you, I swear I will;

— Edna St. Vincent Millay

Listen, children:

— Edna St. Vincent Millay

Now goes under, and I watch it go under, the sun

— Edna St. Vincent Millay

My candle burns at both ends;

— Edna St. Vincent Millay

Down, down, down into the darkness of the grave

— Edna St. Vincent Millay

And must I then, indeed, Pain, live with you

— Edna St. Vincent Millay

The first rose on my rose-tree

— Edna St. Vincent Millay

God, I can push the grass apart and lay my finger on Thy heart.

— Edna St. Vincent Millay

My heart is warm with the friends I make,

— Edna St. Vincent Millay

I will come back to you, I swear I will;

— Edna St. Vincent Millay

Please give me some good advice in your next letter. I promise not to follow it.

— Edna St. Vincent Millay

SHE is neither pink nor pale,

— Edna St. Vincent Millay

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

— Edna St. Vincent Millay

Listen, children:

— Edna St. Vincent Millay

Not truth, but faith, it is that keeps the world alive.

— Edna St. Vincent Millay

Beauty is whatever gives joy.

— Edna St. Vincent Millay

Down, down, down into the darkness of the grave

— Edna St. Vincent Millay

And all at once the heavy night

— Edna St. Vincent Millay

Pity me that the heart is slow to learn

— 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

Stranger, pause and look;

— Edna St. Vincent Millay