Edna St. Vincent Millay - Life Quotes

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It's not true that life is one damn thing after another—it's one damn thing over and over.

Edna St. Vincent Millay
Parrots, tortoises and redwoods
Live a longer life than men do,
Men a longer life than dogs do,
Dogs a longer life than love does.

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And life goes on forever like the gnawing of a mouse...

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How strange a thing is death, bringing to his knees, bringing to his antlers The buck in the snow... Life, looking out attentive from the eyes of the doe.

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Sweep the floor, and sweep it again tomorrow and the day after tomorrow and the day after that and every day of your life; — if not that floor, why then — some other floor.

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Life in itself
Is nothing,
An empty cup, a flight of uncarpeted stairs.

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All my life,
Following Care along the dusty road,
Have I looked back on loveliness and sighed....

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And must I then, indeed, Pain, live with you all through my life?-sharing my fire, my bed, Sharing-oh, worst of all things!-the same head?- And, when I feed myself, feeding you too?

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Curse thee, Life, I will live with thee no more! Thou hast mocked me, starved me, beat my body sore! And all for a pledge that was not pledged by me, I have kissed thy crust and eaten sparingly That I might eat again, and met thy sneers With deprecations, and thy blows with tears,...

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Not for the flag Of any land because myself was born there Will I give up my life. But I will love that land where man is free, And that will I defend.

Edna St. Vincent Millay