edna st. vincent millay

     

This Maine poetess sometimes wrote under the shorter pen name Nancy Boyd

Trivia about edna st. vincent millay

  • In 1923 this "Saint" of a woman won for work that included "Eight Sonnets in American Poetry"
  • The 2001 biography "Savage Beauty" details the lustful life of this "What Lips My Lips Have Kissed" poet
  • She's been described as "the foremost woman poet of America"
  • She wasn't so "saint"ly when she wrote the following:("What lips my lips have kissed and where and why I have forgotten and what arms have lain under my head til morning")
  • Writing the 1927 opera "The King's Henchmen" & also her poetry, she was burning her candle at both ends
  • In a 1920 poetry collection, she wrote, "My candle burns at both ends, it will not last the night"
  • Beloved poet seen here
  • From 1917 to 1919 this poet from Maine was an actress & playwright with the Provincetown Players
  • One of her most evocative sonnets begins, "Euclid alone has looked on beauty bare"
  • She wove "The Harp Weaver":ESM (or ESVM)
  • Her candle burned at both ends:ESVM
  • She began a poem, "What lips my lips have kissed, and where, and why, I have forgotten"
  • In "A Few Figs From Thistles" she wrote, "My candle burns at both ends, it will not last the night"
  • A 1950 obit of this female poet said, "Greenwich Village & Vassar plus a gypsy childhood on the rocky coast of Maine"
  • In 1923 she won a Pulitzer Prize for a group of poems that included "The Ballad of the Harp-Weaver"
  • This Maine poetess wrote a group of love sonnets that were published in the collection "Fatal Interview"

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  • "Love is not all: it is not meat nor drink." ~Edna St. Vincent Millay
  • It is not true that life is one damn thing after another ― it's one damn thing over and over. ― Edna St. Vincent Millay
  • RT @GKJill: I, Being born a Woman and Distressed (Sonnet XLI) -Edna St. Vincent Millay
  • @GKJill She's in such despair... a very moving piece, who's the artist? -Edna St. Vincent Millay, remarkable poet...
  • I, Being born a Woman and Distressed (Sonnet XLI) -Edna St. Vincent Millay
  • Soar, eat ether, see what has never been seen; depart, be lost, but climb, -- Edna St. Vincent Millay
  • Photo: pre1923: "Only until this cigarette is ended" Sonnets by Edna St. Vincent Millay Second April, 1921
  • RT @UpSearchCoach: “Into the darkness they go, the wise and the lovely.” ~Edna St. Vincent Millay
  • My candle burns at both ends;It will not last the night; But ah, my foes, &oh my friends It gives a lovely light! -Edna St. Vincent Millay
  • RT @ErikaRobuck: A striking monument to Edna St. Vincent Millay via @BostonGlobe
  • Edna St. Vincent Millay~ Its not true that life is one damn thing after another it is one damn thing over and over.
  • “I know I am but summer to your heart, and not the full four seasons of the year.” ―Edna St. Vincent Millay
  • RT @poetshouse: And the sky went wan, and the wind came cold, / And the sun rose dripping, a bucketful of gold. -Edna St. Vincent Millay
  • City Trees by Edna St. Vincent Millay The trees along this city street, Save for the traffic and the trains,...
  • RT @juniusworth: Mike Trout. MT @poetshouse sky went wan, and the wind came cold, / And the sun rose dripping, a bucketful of gold. -Edna S…
  • Mike Trout. MT @poetshouse sky went wan, and the wind came cold, / And the sun rose dripping, a bucketful of gold. -Edna St. Vincent Millay
  • And the sky went wan, and the wind came cold, / And the sun rose dripping, a bucketful of gold. -Edna St. Vincent Millay
  • Btw...holes n the world paraphrased from Edna St. Vincent Millay...thank u
  • RT @PoemHunterCom: The vision of you, by all my dreams attended. And then adieu,—farewell!—the dream is done. ― Edna St. Vincent Millay
  • "Beauty is whatever gives joy."_____Edna St. Vincent Millay
  • The vision of you, by all my dreams attended. And then adieu,—farewell!—the dream is done. ― Edna St. Vincent Millay
  • RT @crislopezg: "In it's purest form, anarchism sounds like a beautiful, idealistic thing"- sighed the minarchist. Interesting read: http:/…
  • "In it's purest form, anarchism sounds like a beautiful, idealistic thing"- sighed the minarchist. Interesting read:
  • @wallisbird90 Edna St. Vincent Millay on what it really means to be an “anarchist”
  • Edna St. Vincent Millay~ Please give me some good advice in your next letter. I promise not to follow it.
  • RT @Hippiechick68: Into the darkness they go, the wise and the lovely. ~Edna St. Vincent Millay
  • RT @g2athens: @DeadGirl707 I read this and thought of you. A poem by Edna St. Vincent Millay.
  • RT @shinenella: Sağlam kayada dikiliyor çirkin evler emin ellerde Gel de gör, benim parıltılı sarayım kumun üzerinde! Edna St. Vincent Mill…
  • Sağlam kayada dikiliyor çirkin evler emin ellerde Gel de gör, benim parıltılı sarayım kumun üzerinde! Edna St. Vincent Millay
  • Photo: Edna St. Vincent Millay was the first woman to win a Pulitzer Prize for poetry. She was openly...
  • Into the darkness they go, the wise and the lovely. ~Edna St. Vincent Millay
  • RT @Poetry_Society: “I shall forget you presently, my dear, / So make the most of this, your little day” -Edna St. Vincent Millay: