Edna St. Vincent Millay

"Euclid alone has looked on Beauty bare."

"Love has gone and left me and the days are all alike."

"What if God is not good?"

"The smallest atom in my body is my Almighty made."

"Time is indeed a difficult thing to understand, especially the past."

"I had rather learn from one lion than from a hundred sheep."

"My thoughts are meat and drink to me."

"Gentlemen do not read each other's mail."

"Take up your Cross; it may be light enough to carry."

"The courage of America is the courage of its common people."

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

"The only way to deal with an unfree world is to become so absolutely free that very existence is an act of rebellion."

"A person who publishes a book willfully appears before the populace with his pants down."

"I have a garden of my own, but I don't know what it is yet."

"Being a woman is a terribly difficult task, since it consists principally in dealing with men."

"I am looking forward to quite a lot of things; some are far away."

"My heart has a restless and sorrowing bent; it is not for long at rest."

"The true alchemists do not change lead into gold; they change the world into words."

"I wish I had the voice to sing the praises of what I know to be beautiful."

"It is fatal to be a man or woman pure and simple; one must be woman-manly or man-womanly."

"Where are the songs of Spring? Ay, where are they?"

"A grown woman should allow herself to be angry very bloody angry at times."

"Knowledge is power, and power is knowledge."

"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 best experiences."

"The wages of sin is death, but the gift of God is eternal life."

"Do not look for illumination unless you want it."

"Time, you old gypsy man, will you not stay?"

"The measure of a man is the woman he loves."

"I have grown past the necessity of needing to be right."

"I am ever as a child before this world of wonder."