Edna St. Vincent Millay

"The snow in the mountains was melting and Burger King was still open."

"I know the bottom, she says. I know it with my great tap-root; it is what you fall through when the whole world comes unraveled."

"Safe upon the solid rock the ugly houses stand."

"Laugh, and the world laughs with you; weep, and you weep alone."

"The heart once broken is stronger in the broken place."

"I who am dead am still alive in this and that."

"It is impossible to love and to be wise."

"I have walked through many cities, seeking always some spot of earth that the rain might have washed clean."

"Youth is a blunder; manhood a struggle; old age a regret."

"Think of me as a woman who lost her way in the dark."

"I want to be a great artist, and that is ambition enough for me."

"The world is breaking and the sun is setting; what do I care?"

"I died for beauty, but was scarce adjusted in the tomb when one who died for truth was lain in an adjoining room."

"Love never dies, but it fades into acceptance."

"Freedom is the right to tell people what they do not want to hear."

"Dreaming is the soul's passport to infinity."

"I have a little shadow that goes in and out with me."

"Courage is not the absence of fear, but music in the face of it."

"The only way out is through the fire."

"A man or woman should choose a profession for profit, not passion."

"Nature abhors a vacuum and my heart is one."

"Spring is the season of hope."

"I have forgotten much, but I remember you."

"To love is to consent to the possibility of loss."

"The wise inherit glory but the foolish inherit only shame."

"I shall not rest until I have written the truth that burns in my heart."

"Patience is a virtue I have never possessed."

"The greatest adventure is the journey within."

"I am bound to the world by love."

"Death, be not proud, though some have called thee mighty and dreadful."