Edna St. Vincent Millay

Set the foot down with distrust on the crust of the world - it is thin.

April comes like an idiot, babbling and stewing flowers.

Please give me some good advice in your next letter. I promise not to follow it.

A person who publishes 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 help him.

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

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

Music my rampart, and my only one.

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.

A grave is such a quiet place.

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

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

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

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

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

What the customer demands is last year's model, cheaper. To find out what the customer needs you have to understand what the customer is doing as well as he understands it. Then you build what he needs and you educate him to the fact that he needs it.

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

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.

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.

It's not true that life is one damn thing after another; it's one damn thing over and over.

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

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.

Beauty is whatever gives joy.

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

My candle burns at both ends; it will not last the night; but ah, my foes, and oh, my friends - it gives a lovely light!

God, I can push the grass apart and lay my finger on Thy heart.

They say when you are missing someone that they are probably feeling the same, but I don't think it's possible for you to miss me as much as I'm missing you right now.

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

The soul can split the sky in two and let the face of God shine through.