Edna St. Vincent Millay Quotes - Page 2

I know I am but summer to your heart, and not the full four seasons of the year.

Beauty is whatever gives joy.

Marriage...one of the most civilized institutions in the world...But...swimming is one of the most wonderful of sports, and yet there are always some people who cannot swim who insist on going into the water and getting drowned. Many people spoil marriage in a like manner. One should be sure she knows how to be married before rushing into it.

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.

I do not think there is a woman in whom the roots of passion shoot deeper than in me.