Pour away despair and rinse the cup. Eat happiness like bread.

- Edna St. Vincent Millay

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

- Edna St. Vincent Millay

Life must go on; I forget just why.

- Edna St. Vincent Millay

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 n…

- Edna St. Vincent Millay

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

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

- Edna St. Vincent Millay

Beauty is whatever gives joy.

- Edna St. Vincent Millay

I love humanity but I hate people.

- Edna St. Vincent Millay

Life is a quest and love a quarrel

- Edna St. Vincent Millay