Poetry Quote by Edna St. Vincent Millay — Inspiring Words on Life, Love & Wisdom

“Down, down, down into the darkness of the grave”

“Oh, friend, forget not, when you fain would note”

“After all, my erstwhile dear,”

“Life must go on; I forget just why.”

“Pity me that the heart is slow to learn”

“TO what purpose, April, do you return again?”

“Poetry, if it has too many layers, should at least lead readers to the openings of the caves the poet built with words and then let them explore on their own! If it does not happen, the travellers might return even without knocking at all!”

“Be ahead of all parting, as though it already were”

“I hunger for your sleek laugh and your hands the color of a furious harvest. I want to eat the sunbeams flaring in your beauty.”

“229. I am writing all this down in blue ink, so as to remember that all words, not just some, are written in water.”

“The two lovers walked among the willow trees, and the oneness of each was a language speaking of the oneness of both; and an ear listening in silence to the inspiration of love; and a seeing eye seeing the glory of happiness. "Astarte has brought back our souls to this life so that the delights of love and the glory of youth might not be forbidden us, my beloved.”

“it's so easy to be a poet”