Edna St. Vincent Millay

"Adventure awaits those brave enough to seek it."

"Imagination is intelligence with joy."

"History is the best teacher; we must listen closely."

"Philosophy is the art of being wise."

"Literature is the most agreeable way of ignoring life."

"Politics is the art of looking for trouble, finding it everywhere, and applying the wrong remedy."

"War is the great purifier of nations."

"Motivation comes from within; inspiration comes from without."

"To inspire is to breathe life into another's soul."

"Relationships require vulnerability and honesty."

"Solitude is the soil in which genius is cultivated."

"Success is not final, failure is not fatal; it is the courage to continue that counts."

"Happiness is not something ready made; it comes from your own actions."

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

"I love humanity but I hate people."

"Blow out, you bugles, over the rich Dead!"

"My candle burns at both ends; it gives a lovely light but doesn't last as long."

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

"Where can I find a man who has forgotten women?"

"I am not brave; I am merely angry."

"The courage of the poet is to keep alight the spiritual fire."

"I only know that I am not what I ought to be."

"Pity me that the heart is slow to learn what the swift mind beholds at every turn."

"Distrust all in whom the love of power predominates over the love of liberty."

"Arithmetic is where numbers fly like pigeons in and out of your head."

"I have a rendezvous with Death."

"One cannot be deeply responsive to the world without being saddened very often."

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

"The heart of this country is in its people, not in its government."

"I find I am not happy unless I am making verses."