her beautiful words...

Soar, eat ether, see what has never been seen; Depart, be lost, but climb.

Edna St. Vincent Millay: Climb

After all my erstwhile dear, My no longer cherished; Need we say it was not love, Just because it perished?

Edna St. Vincent Millay: My Erstwhile Dear

Music my rampart, and my only one.

Edna St. Vincent Millay: Music

I know I am but summer to your heart, And not the full four seasons of the year.

Edna St. Vincent Millay: Summer to Your Heart

Where you used to be, there is a hole in the world, which I find myself constantly walking around in the daytime, and falling in at night. I miss you like hell.

Edna St. Vincent Millay: A Hole in the World

No one but Night, With tears on her dark face, Watches beside me In this windy place.

Edna St. Vincent Millay: Night

I will be the gladest thing Under the sun! I will touch a hundred flowers And not pick one.

Edna St. Vincent Millay: A Hundred Flowers

Beauty is whatever gives joy.

Edna St. Vincent Millay: Beauty

The soul can split the sky in two...

Edna St. Vincent Millay: Soul

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 most valuable mistakes.

Edna St. Vincent Millay: Good Advice

The longest absence is less perilous to love than the terrible trials of incessant proximity.

Edna St. Vincent Millay: The Trials of Love

Parrots, tortoises and redwoods live a longer life than men do; Men a longer life than dogs do; Dogs a longer life than love does.

Edna St. Vincent Millay: Parrots, Tortoises and Redwoods

Not truth, but faith, it is that keeps the world alive.

Edna St. Vincent Millay: Faith

The young are so old, they are born with their fingers crossed.

Edna St. Vincent Millay: Age

Childhood is the kingdom where nobody dies. Nobody that matters, that is.

Edna St. Vincent Millay: Childhood

I love humanity, but hate people.

Edna St. Vincent Millay: Humanity

If I love you Wednesday, What is that to you? I do not love you Thursday— So much is true.

Edna St. Vincent Millay: If I love you Wednesday...

A person who published a book willfully appears before the populace with his pants down. If it is a good book nothing can hurt him. If it is a bad book nothing can save him.

Edna St. Vincent Millay: Publishing

Poems are perfect; picketing, sometimes, is better.

Edna St. Vincent Millay: Poems and Picketing