Edna St. Vincent Millay

I will be the gladdest thing under the sun! I will touch a hundred flowers and not pick one. ↗

— Edna St. Vincent Millay

#sun #flowers

Beauty is whatever gives joy. ↗

— Edna St. Vincent Millay

#gives #joy #whatever

I know what my heart is like Since your love died: It is like a hollow ledge Holding a little pool Left there by the tide, A little tepid pool, Drying inward from the edge. ↗

— Edna St. Vincent Millay

#love

Music, my rampart and my only one. ↗

— Edna St. Vincent Millay

#inspirational #music #rampart #freedom

Oh, friend, forget not, when you fain would note In me a beauty that was never mine, How first you knew me in a book I wrote, How first you loved me for a written line.... ↗

— Edna St. Vincent Millay

#beauty

Life must go on; I forget just why. ↗

— Edna St. Vincent Millay

#life #humor

Catch from the board of beauty/ Such careless crumbs as fall. ↗

— Edna St. Vincent Millay

#poetry #beauty

I would I were alive again to kiss the fingers of the rain. ↗

— Edna St. Vincent Millay

#poetry #inspirational

We are all ruled in what we do by impulses; and these impulses are so organized that our actions in general serve for our self preservation and that of the race. ↗

— Edna St. Vincent Millay

#general #impulses #organized #our #preservation

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

#constantly #daytime #falling #find #hell