Edna St. Vincent Millay

"My candle burns at both ends; it gives a lovely light!"

"It is not enough to have had an education any more than it is enough to have eaten a meal."

"I love humanity but I hate people."

"The world breaks everyone, and afterward, many are strong at the broken places."

"Where you used to be, there is a hole in the world, which I've found myself constantly walking around in the daytime, and falling in at night."

"A poet is someone who is willing to die for their beliefs."

"I am not resigned to the shutting away of loving hearts in the hard ground."

"Breath into me a terrible beauty, for I am ready to be born."

"There are few hours in life more agreeable than the hour dedicated to the ceremony known as afternoon tea."

"God, I can push the grass apart and lay my fingers on thy heart."

"Euclid alone has looked on Beauty bare."

"I wish I could drink like other people do, but the sun goes down and up with me otherwise."

"Life is not one thing after another; it's the same damn thing over and over."

"The witch that came the night they hanged his mother felled his father oak and set the house afire."

"I know I am but summer to your heart, and not the full year's exquisite need."

"Little lamb, who made thee? Dost thou know who made thee?"

"Absence, hear thou my protestation!"

"I have a rendezvous with Life, in days I hoped would come."

"My heart has a terrible habit of being the first to break."

"Only the diamond's bright light can cut through the darkness."

"Time cannot take what it never gave."

"I do not love him because he is good but because he is mine."

"Knowledge is power, but enthusiasm pulls the switch."

"Shall I be forever a stranger to the things I love?"

"The failure of women to produce genius of a high order in music may be safely attributed to the world's lack of encouragement."

"I shall live to fight again another day."

"What lips my lips have kissed, and where, and why, I have forgotten."

"Beauty can pierce one like a pain."

"My soul is sick with longing for a land that surely exists somewhere."

"If I have freedom in my love, and in my soul am free, angels envy me."