Home
Authors
Tags
App

Get QuoteDark Inspirational Quotes App

" It is high time we found out about this man Cummings. Let us give him every opportunity to show us at once whether he is a genius, a charlatan, or a congenital defective - and get him off our minds. "

Edna St. Vincent Millay
Minds
Genius
Time
Related Quotes:
" God, I can push the grass apart and lay my finger on Thy heart. "
Edna St. Vincent Millay
Finger
Grass
Heart
" Childhood is the kingdom where nobody dies. Nobody that matters, that is. "
Edna St. Vincent Millay
Nobody
Childhood
Kingdom
" Music my rampart, and my only one. "
Edna St. Vincent Millay
Music
Rampart
Only
" We are all ruled in what we do by impulses; and these impulses are so organized that our actions in general serve for our self preservation and that of the race. "
Edna St. Vincent Millay
Organized
Actions
Race
" My god is all gods in one. When I see a beautiful sunset, I worship the god of Nature; when I see a hidden action brought to light, I worship the god of Truth; when I see a bad man punished and a good man go free, I worship the god of Justice; when I see a penitent forgiven, I worship the god of Mercy. "
Edna St. Vincent Millay
Light
Sunset
Good
" I've written so many verses and keep on writing so many more that I became afraid that if I didn't write them into one big book, I might forget some of them. "
Edna St. Vincent Millay
Book
Big
Afraid
" I see things with my own eyes, just as if they were the first eyes that ever saw, and then I set about to tell, as best I can, just what I've seen. "
Edna St. Vincent Millay
Best
See
Own
" 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
Hurt
Help
Good
" 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
Hell
Myself
Night
" I am glad that I paid so little attention to good advice; had I abided by it I might have been saved from some of my most valuable mistakes. "
Edna St. Vincent Millay
I Am
Mistakes
Advice
" I'm so tired of hearing about 'Renascence,' I'm nearly dead. I find it's as hard to live down an early triumph as an early indiscretion. "
Edna St. Vincent Millay
Early
Triumph
Live
" Some of us have been thinking and talking too long without doing anything. Poems are perfect; picketing, sometimes, is better. "
Edna St. Vincent Millay
Long
Perfect
Thinking
" The young are so old, they are born with their fingers crossed. "
Edna St. Vincent Millay
Fingers
Crossed
Born
" Set the foot down with distrust on the crust of the world - it is thin. "
Edna St. Vincent Millay
Distrust
Down
Foot
" Not truth, but faith, it is that keeps the world alive. "
Edna St. Vincent Millay
Faith
Truth
Keeps
" Please give me some good advice in your next letter. I promise not to follow it. "
Edna St. Vincent Millay
Advice
Good
Good Advice
" Beauty is whatever gives joy. "
Edna St. Vincent Millay
Whatever
Beauty
Gives
" 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
Friends
Will
Oh
" It's not true that life is one damn thing after another; it's one damn thing over and over. "
Edna St. Vincent Millay
True
Damn
Life
" What the customer demands is last year's model, cheaper. To find out what the customer needs you have to understand what the customer is doing as well as he understands it. Then you build what he needs and you educate him to the fact that he needs it. "
Edna St. Vincent Millay
Customer
Find
Understand
" The longest absence is less perilous to love than the terrible trials of incessant proximity. "
Edna St. Vincent Millay
Love
Trials
To Love
" 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
Ancestors
Government
Expecting
" The soul can split the sky in two and let the face of God shine through. "
Edna St. Vincent Millay
Soul
Sky
Shine