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

“Life must go on; I forget just why.”

“Stranger, pause and look;”

“My candle burns at both ends;”

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

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

“I will come back to you, I swear I will;”

“wild rose roots dream the bees
what does the baby see”

“Four billion people on this earth”

“We somehow must become what we are not, sacrificing what we are, to inherit the masquerade of what we will be.”

“For it is up to you and me”

“Before getting translated, a poem already gets shrunk or expanded within the ‘sphere of intellect’ of the translator in the original language, and it again gets shrunk or expanded within the ‘sphere of intellect’ of the translator in the target language. Thus, in translation of poetry; there exists a possibility of components like imagination, art of wordplay, skill of constructing internal rhythm and expand of knowledge of the poet getting affected by the constraint and differentia of the translator.”

“You campaign in poetry. You govern in prose.”