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Edna St. Vincent Millay Quotes

1892–1950 United States

Edna St. Vincent Millay (February 22, 1892 – October 19, 1950) was an American lyrical poet and playwright and the first woman to receive the Pulitzer Prize for Poetry.

United States
20th-century poets
Authors
Feminists

Also known as: Millay, Edna St. Vincent, Nancy Boyd

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But you are mobile as the veering air,
And all your charms more changeful than the tide,
Wherefore to be inconstant is no care:
I have but to continue at your side.
So wanton, light and false, my love, are you,
I am most faithless when I most am true.

Euclid alone has looked on Beauty bare.
Let all who prate of Beauty hold their peace,
And lay them prone upon the earth and cease
To ponder on themselves, the while they stare
At nothing, intricately drawn nowhere.

Sonnet XXII from The Harp-Weaver and Other Poems (1923)

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Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: Edna St. Vincent Millay (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.