Edna St. Vincent Millay quotes - page 4

Love is not all: it is not meat nor drink Nor slumber nor a roof against the rain. (Edna St. Vincent Millay)
Please give me some good advice in your next letter. I promise not to follow it. (in a letter written while she was in college) View quote
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I shall think of you Whenever I am most happy, whenever I am Most sad, whenever I see a beautiful thing. You are a burning lamp to me, a flame The wind cannot blow out, and I shall hold you High in my hand against whatever darkness. View quote
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The undercurrent of my every thought: To seek you, find you, have you for my own. View quote
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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. View quote
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But you are mobile as the veering air, And all your charms more changeful than the tide, Wherefore to be inconstant is no care: I have but to continue at your side. So wanton, light and false, my love, are you, I am most faithless when I most am true. View quote
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Thus in the winter stands the lonely tree, Nor knows what birds have vanished one by one, Yet knows its boughs more silent than before: I cannot say what loves have come and gone, I only know that summer sang in me A little while, that in me sings no more. View quote
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[L]ife isn't one thing after another, it's the same thing over and over. View quote
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Edna St. Vincent Millay

Edna St. Vincent Millay - Image
Occupation: American Author
Born: February 22, 1892
Died: October 19, 1950
Quotes count: 83
Wikipedia: Edna St. Vincent Millay

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