Edna St Vincent Millay Quotes

We are all ruled in what we do by impulses; and these impulses are so organized that our actions in general serve for our self preservation and that of the race. 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. - Edna St Vincent Millay

They say when you are missing someone that they are 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

Safe upon the solid rock the ugly houses stand: Come and see my shining palace built upon the sand! - Edna St Vincent Millay

Life must go on; I forget just why. - Edna St Vincent Millay

Life is a quest and love a quarrel. - Edna St Vincent Millay

If I love you Wednesday, What is that to you? I do not love you Thursday -- so much is true. - 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 sorrow, into something I can bear. - Edna St Vincent Millay

Down, down, down into the darkness of the grave 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

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

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