Edna St. Vincent Millay

I see things with my own eyes, just as if they were the first eyes that ever saw, and then I set about to tell, as best I can, just what I've seen.

Set the foot down with distrust on the crust of the world - it is thin.

The longest absence is less perilous to love than the terrible trials of incessant proximity.

Where you used to be, there is a hole in the world, which I find myself constantly walking around in the daytime, and falling in at night. I miss you like hell.

The soul can split the sky in two and let the face of God shine through.

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.

I went to Boston fully expecting to be arrested - arrested by a polizia created by a government that my ancestors rebelled to establish.

What the customer demands is last year's model, cheaper. To find out what the customer needs you have to understand what the customer is doing as well as he understands it. Then you build what he needs and you educate him to the fact that he needs it.

Some of us have been thinking and talking too long without doing anything. Poems are perfect; picketing, sometimes, is better.

Beauty is whatever gives joy.

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

I am glad that I paid so little attention to good advice; had I abided by it I might have been saved from some of my most valuable mistakes.