Edna St. Vincent Millay - Book Quotes

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A person who publishes a book willfully appears before the populace with his pants down.... Kathleen is about to publish a book. If it's a good book, nothing can harm her. If it's a bad book, nothing can help her.

Edna St. Vincent Millay

Stranger, pause and look; From the dust of ages Lift this little book, Turn the tattered pages, Read me, do not let me die! Search the fading letters finding Steadfast in the broken binding All that once was I!

Edna St. Vincent Millay

This book, when I am dead, will be A little faint perfume of me. People who knew me well will say, She really used to think that way.

Edna St. Vincent Millay

Oh, friend, forget not, when you fain would note In me a beauty that was never mine, How first you knew me in a book I wrote, How first you loved me for a written line....

Edna St. Vincent Millay