Edna St. Vincent Millay Quotes & Sayings (Page 2)

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

“Not truth, but faith, it is that keeps the world alive.”

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

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

“A person who publishes a book willfully appears before the populace with his pants down. If it is a good book nothing can hurt him. If it is a bad book nothing can help him.”

“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.”

“We are all ruled in what we do by impulses; and these impulses are so organized that our actions in general serve for our self preservation and that of the race.”

“Music my rampart, and my only one.”