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AdonaiG04362492: 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)
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devika_brendon: Documentary on Edna St. Vincent Millay
ScottOrgan1: from Dirge Without Music
By Edna St. Vincent Millay
iherb23voucher6: “They say when you’re missing someone that they’re 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.” – Edna St. Vincent Millay -->iherb
lauritadianita2: 2/3: “Gently they go, the beautiful, the tender, the kind; /Quietly they go, the intelligent, the witty, the brave./ I know. But I do not approve. And I am not resigned.” - Edna St. Vincent Millay
aliterarybot: Life in itself
Is nothing,
An empty cup, a flight of uncarpeted stairs.
—Edna St. Vincent Millay, 'Spring'
Brain_Chain: Childhood is not from birth to a certain age and at a certain age / The child is grown, and puts away childish things. / Childhood is the kingdom where nobody dies. / Nobody that matters, that is.——- Edna St. Vincent Millay
GalanZJ1: Forever, wanting
Shall I be.
For, what may become.
If I shall never be free,
Be free,
To be me.
Poem written by Athey Thompson
Image of the late great poet & playwright Edna St Vincent Millay
stephen_smith: “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
ComradeBeani: Night falls fast.
Today is in the past.
Blown from the dark hill hither to my door
Three flakes, then four
Arrive, then many more.
- Edna St Vincent Millay
mliztuck: Dirge without music, by Edna St. Vincent Millay
annita_neatsy: “Beauty is whatever gives joy” - Edna St. Vincent Millay
Pretty Welsh Mountain colt foal standing proudly next to his mum! Those eye lashes and that beard hair!! So cute! ☺️❤️
iamstfslvdr: “I know I am but summer to your heart, and not the full four seasons of the year.” — Edna St. Vincent Millay
ASHTEFseizing MOA GLOBE
outside_to: “I will be the gladdest thing under the sun! I will touch a hundred flowers and not pick one.”
― Edna St. Vincent Millay
bluegardenia114: This book, when I am dead, will be A little faint perfume of me.—Edna St. Vincent Millay
bluegardenia114: Edna St. Vincent Millay "The Philosopher"
bluegardenia114: "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
_TheExcerpts: “I swear by the moon I am most melancholy soft, and most outrageous sentimental.”
— Edna St. Vincent Millay, from “The Lamp and the Bell”
iMoGalore: Writers Inspirational Quotes
A person who publishes a book appears willfully in public with his pants down.
- Edna St. Vincent Millay
colouroflead: 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.
Edna St. Vincent Millay
erinentrada: People dress and go to town;
I sit in my chair.
All my thoughts are slow and brown:
Standing up or sitting down
Little matters, or what gown
Or what shoes I wear.
— Edna St. Vincent Millay
ElliottBlackwe3: With yet another tragedy that's happened, all I can think of are Edna St. Vincent Millay's lines, “Where you used to be, there is a hole in the world..."
(art by Tetsuhiro Wakabayashi)
ecclespenor: How Fame Fed on Edna St. Vincent Millay
TracieS89160163: ‘I suffer from inflammation of the imagination and a bad attack of ingrowing temperament.’
mamewhit: The sad fate of Edna St Vincent Millay – America’s once celebrated poet
Patbrdh: 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
lsjamison: On TV talking about poetry! Edna St Vincent Millay and her torch poem—more like a scorch poem—as well as line breaks and threesomes!
LRB: ‘Rhetorically, Millay was a genius: her mastery of attitudes and devices owed a lot to her training as an actress. She knew the value of a theatrical presentation.’
Ange Mlinko on Edna St Vincent Millay’s diaries:
BarberotTeresa: Renascence by Edna St. Vincent Millay:
Patbrdh: April
Full of whispers, full of sighs
Edna St. Vincent Millay
AodhBC: "Thou famished grave, I will not fill thee yet"
Such a delightful poem by Edna St. Vincent Millay.
AlkhaterAziz: “I will be the gladdest thing under the sun! I will touch a hundred flowers and not pick one.”
Edna St. Vincent Millay
pauldebruyne: Light
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ConsueloPoet: The sad fate of Edna St Vincent Millay – America’s once celebrated poet
Bodhihodi: How Fame Fed on Edna St. Vincent Millay
__llFll__: “Feed the grape and bean
To the vintner and monger:
I will lie down lean
With my thirst and my hunger.”
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Edna St. Vincent Millay
patty4clma: The soul can split the sky in two and let the face of God shine through. ~ Edna St. Vincent Millay
annaparker_: Edna St Vincent Millay
aliterarybot: Thou art not lovelier than lilacs,—no,
Nor honeysuckle; thou art not more fair
Than small white single poppies,—I can bear
Thy beauty.
—Edna St. Vincent Millay, 'Sonnet
laurenbrazeal: "And entering with relief some quiet place / Where never fell his foot or shone his face / I say, 'There is no memory of him here!' / And so sand stricken, so remembering him." -Edna St Vincent Millay
contentmo: Writers Inspirational Quotes
A person who publishes a book appears willfully in public with his pants down.
- Edna St. Vincent Millay
angsuman: Fame Fed on Edna St. Vincent Millay
KUACFMTV: Poetry In America, Tonight at 8:30 on KUAC TV
In 1920s Greenwich Village, Edna St. Vincent Millay wrote sonnets that toppled clichés of love and romance. To probe this unsentimental break-up poetry, host Elisa New speaks with a chorus of National Student Poets.
greggkrupa: "Searching my heart for its true sorrow,
This is the thing I find to be:
That I am weary of words and people,
Sick of the city, wanting the sea"
- edna st. vincent millay, second april
NewYorker: During the 1910s and ’20s, Edna St. Vincent Millay achieved the kind of fame that was unusual for a poet then and unthinkable now. Before the age of the movie star, she became America’s first starlet.
CooperWilhelm: The other two are:
Edna St. Vincent Millay
The 20th Maine (they count as one person)
armadill2010: It's not true that life is one damn thing after another; it is one damn thing over and over. (Edna St. Vincent Millay)
AllOnFire: Writers Inspirational Quotes
A person who publishes a book appears willfully in public with his pants down.
- Edna St. Vincent Millay
LRB: Edna St Vincent Millay's life can't be neatly slotted into narratives of feminist triumphalism or victimisation, Ange Mlinko writes. She embarked on a brilliant career, but the Cinderella story turned into an addiction parable.
jayjayivan: "I, being born a woman and distressed"
BY EDNA ST. VINCENT MILLAY
I, being born a woman and distressed
By all the needs and notions of my kind,
Am urged by your propinquity to find
Your person fair, and feel a certain zest
To bear your body’s weight upon my breast:
poetrypostbot: We lay on a hill-top underneath the moon;
— from "Recuerdo", by Edna St. Vincent Millay.
armadill2010: It's not true that life is one damn thing after another; it is one damn thing over and over. (Edna St. Vincent Millay)
ArthurLWood: I shall forget you presently, my dear,
So make the most of this, your little day,
Your little month, your little half a year,
Ere I forget, or die, or move away.
Sonnet 4 from 'Four Sonnets' by Edna St. Vincent Millay.
Listen here:
FalconbridgeMSN: Edna St. Vincent Millay collected songwriting royalties from ASCAP from 100+ poems set to music. If you know a poet affected by these issues, please hug them.
anitahart: I will be the gladdest thing
Under the sun!
I will touch a hundred flowers
And not pick one. - Edna St. Vincent Millay
MaeveGilchrist: Can’t wait to perform the Harpweaver project solo at Steepletop this summer, home of poet, Edna St Vincent Millay. It’s going to be a magical evening!
mathew_judas: Not truth, but faith, it is that keeps the world alive.
Please give me some good advice in your next letter. I promise not to follow it.
Childhood is the kingdom where nobody dies. Nobody that matters, that is.
Edna St. Vincent Millay
johnstonglenn: Poet and playwright Edna St Vincent Millay was born OTD in 1892. The library at her upstate New York home Steepletop, now a museum, has Shakespeare and Company editions of Ulysses (6th printing, with ring stain) and Pomes Penyeach, and an early American edition of Chamber Music.
Sagraddda: Edna St. Vincent Millay, from "Wild Swans", Collected Poems.
ArthurLWood: Oh, think not I am faithful to a vow!
Faithless am I save to love's self alone.
Were you not lovely I would leave you now:
After the feet of beauty fly my own.
Sonnet 3 from 'Four Sonnets' by Edna St. Vincent Millay.
Listen here:
lixll7l: I swear by the moon I am most melancholy soft, and most outrageous sentimental.
— Edna St. Vincent Millay, from “The Lamp and the Bell,”
MClaudiaAleixo: “I will be the gladdest thing under the sun! I will touch a hundred flowers and not pick one.” — Edna St. Vincent Millay
kelseyyan: "Never ask a girl poet to marry you." — Edna St Vincent Millay
ameliakated: “Departure” by Edna St. Vincent Millay.
aldsn8: “I swear by the moon I am most melancholy soft, and most outrageous sentimental.”
— Edna St. Vincent Millay, from “The Lamp and the Bell,” published c. 1921.
_uncoolniece: “First Fig” by Edna St. Vincent Millay
rock_fischer: Safe upon the solid rock the ugly houses stand.
Come and see my shining palace built upon the sand!
Edna St. Vincent Millay
ArthurLWood: 'I think I should have loved you presently,
And given in earnest words I flung in jest;
And lifted honest eyes for you to see,
And caught your hand against my cheek and breast.'
Sonnet 2 from 'Four Sonnets' by Edna St. Vincent Millay.
Listen here:
AmberBenson: Edna St. Vincent Millay is one of my favorites. This made me laugh.
daBookdragon: This poem, written by Edna St Vincent Millay in the 1930s, was a response to that era's "America First" movement. I have cherished Millay's complete works for decades but overlooked this poem until 6 years ago. It has now become a favorite.
hsianghui: How Fame Fed on Edna St. Vincent Millay
Benedix143: 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
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iherbcoupon2022: “They say when you’re missing someone that they’re 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.” – Edna St. Vincent Millay ~iherb
jaxwendy: I cannot read or hear the word zest without thinking of my dear Edna St. Vincent Millay
ArthurLWood: I, that have bared me to your quiver's fire,
Lifted my face into its puny rain,
Do wreathe you Impotent to Evoke Desire
As you are Powerless to Elicit Pain!
Sonnet I from 'Four Sonnets' by Edna St. Vincent Millay. Listen here:
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robertsnickc: My heart is warm with friends I make,
And better friends I’ll not be knowing;
Yet there isn’t a train I wouldn’t take,
No matter where it’s going.
~ Edna St. Vincent Millay, Travel, from "Second April", 1921
NewYorker: During the 1910s and ’20s, Edna St. Vincent Millay achieved the kind of fame that was unusual for a poet then and unthinkable now. Before the age of the movie star, she became America’s first starlet.
iMoGalore: Writers Inspirational Quotes
A person who publishes a book appears willfully in public with his pants down.
- Edna St. Vincent Millay
MostlyPrint: 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!
Edna St. Vincent Millay 1892 – 1950
aliterarybot: You think we build a world; I think we leave
Only these tools, wherewith to strain and grieve.
—Edna St. Vincent Millay, 'Sonnet'
3QD: How Fame Fed on Edna St. Vincent Millay
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TheGirlfriend_0: “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 so much.”
― Edna St. Vincent Millay
MiaHopkinsxoxo: Edmund Wilson on the poet Edna St. Vincent Millay. “He remained in love with her for years…”
CampMarmalade: dreamt I gave a Sprechstimme performance on a program also featuring Edna St. Vincent Millay, who read from her new work and discussed her aesthetic stances
poetrypostbot: And the sun rose dripping, a bucketful of gold.
— from "Recuerdo", by Edna St. Vincent Millay.
robertsnickc: My heart is warm with friends I make,
And better friends I’ll not be knowing;
Yet there isn’t a train I wouldn’t take,
No matter where it’s going.
~ Edna St. Vincent Millay, Travel, from "Second April", 1921
bizlike: 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!
Edna St Vincent Millay
WritinDave: "Childhood is the kingdom where nobody dies." - Edna St. Vincent Millay.
No reason.
rodjnaquin: 4 of 5 stars to Collected Poems by Edna St. Vincent Millay
winningwriters: "Sonnets from an Ungrafted Tree, XLI", by Edna St. Vincent Millay |
Dofmau5: How presumptuous of that godawful Annie Clark to name herself after the incomparable Edna St. Vincent Millay!
JeffreyRothsch3: How Fame Fed on Edna St. Vincent Millay
winningwriters: "I shall forget you presently, my dear (Sonnet IV)" by Edna St. Vincent Millay |
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lekhmagazine: Learn the definition of die young through the poetry of St Edna Vincent Millay
