Edna St. Vincent Millay - Young Quotes

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The young are so old, they are born with their fingers crossed.

Edna St. Vincent Millay

The younger generation forms a country of its own. It has no geographical boundaries. I've talked with young Hungarians in Budapest, with young Italians in Rome, with young Frenchmen in Paris, and with young people all over.... These young people are going to do things. They are going to change things.

Edna St. Vincent Millay

Many a bard's untimely death
Lends unto his verses breath;
Here's a song was never sung:
Growing old is dying young.

Edna St. Vincent Millay

But you were something more than young and sweet And fair, - and the long year remembers you.

Edna St. Vincent Millay

To a Young Poet Time cannot break the bird's wing from the bird. Bird and wing together Go down, one feather. No thing that ever flew, Not the lark, not you, Can die as others do.

Edna St. Vincent Millay

When we are old and these rejoicing veins
Are frosty channels to a muted stream,
And out of all our burning there remains
No feeblest spark to fire us, even in dream,
This be our solace: that it was not said
When we were young and warm and in our prime,
Upon our couch we lay as lie the dead,
Sleeping away the unreturning time.

Edna St. Vincent Millay