Edna St. Vincent Millay

"I will not be afraid to speak my truth, though all the world be against me."

"The heart knows things the mind cannot comprehend."

"I am my own salvation or my own damnation."

"A life without love is no life at all."

"The only true failure is not to try."

"I believe in the power of solitude to transform the soul."

"Art is the only way to express the inexpressible."

"I sing not because I am happy, but because I must."

"The world is cruel, but there is beauty in the cruelty."

"I have always believed that the future is in my hands."

"Hope is a dangerous thing, but it is the only thing we have."

"I am grateful for every moment that I am allowed to live."

"The truth is rarely pure and never simple."

"I am a stranger in this land of the living."

"Love is the most dangerous game of all."

"I would rather die on my feet than live on my knees."

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

"I want to know what passion is. I want to feel something strongly."

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

"Childhood is not from birth to a certain age and at a certain age the child is grown, and puts away childish things."

"It is not enough to survive. One must be worthy of survival."

"I burned my candle at both ends, and it gave a lovely light."

"Growing up is losing some illusions, in order to acquire others."

"Sorrow fully accepts or rejected makes less of a deepening shadow on the soul."

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

"The rain was falling in large drops on the windpane, and I was thinking how life never goes the way we plan."

"Love has never in the least degree founded or assured me."

"I cannot say what loves have come and gone in my life; there have been night and day of them."

"My candles burn on both ends; they give a lovely light, but burn out quick."

"She is not a fool who gives what she cannot keep to gain what she cannot lose."