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Edna St. Vincent Millay was an American poet and playwright known for her lyrical poetry and feminist views. Her work received widespread acclaim and she was awarded the Pulitzer Prize for Poetry. She became an influential figure in early 20th-century literature and an icon of independent womanhood. Here are 83 of her quotes:
The world stands out on either side No wider than the heart is wide; Above the world is stretched the sky, No higher than the soul is high. The heart can push the sea and land Farther away on either hand; The soul can split the sky in two, And let the face of God shine through. But East and West will pinch the heart That can not keep them pushed apart; And he whose soul is flat-the sky Will cave in on him by and by.
Edna St. Vincent Millay
Love is not all: it is not meat nor drink
Nor slumber nor a roof against the rain;
Nor yet a floating spar to men that sink
And rise and sink and rise and sink again;
Love can not fill the thickened lung with breath,
Nor clean the blood, nor set the fractured bone;
Yet many a man is making friends with death
Even as I speak, for lack of love alone.
Edna St. Vincent Millay
Edna St. Vincent Millay
Occupation: American Author
Born: February 22, 1892
Died: October 19, 1950
Quotes count: 83
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