Edna St. Vincent Millay

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

- Edna St. Vincent Millay

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

- Edna St. Vincent Millay

"I will come back to you, I swear I will; And you will know me still. I shall be only a little taller Than when I went."

- Edna St. Vincent Millay

"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

"I dread no more the first white in my hair, Or even age itself, the easy shoe, The cane, the wrinkled hands, the special chair: Time, doing this to me, may alter too My anguish, into something I can bear"

- Edna St. Vincent Millay

""April comes like an idiot, babbling and strewing flowers.""

- 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

"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

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

- Edna St. Vincent Millay