Эдна Сент-Винсент Миллей цитаты
Эдна Сент-Винсент Миллей
Дата рождения: 22. Февраль 1892
Дата смерти: 19. Октябрь 1950
Другие имена:إدنا سانت فنسنت ميلاي, ادنا سنت وینسنت میلی, Една Сент-Вінсент Міллей
Эдна Сент-Винсент Миллей — американская поэтесса и драматург, первая женщина, получившая Пулитцеровскую премию по поэзии, одна из самых знаменитых поэтов США XX века.
Подобные авторы
Новелла Матвеева2
русский поэт, прозаик, бард, драматург, литературовед
Мэри Оливер1
американская поэтесса
Зинаида Николаевна Гиппиус57
русская поэтесса и писательница, драматург и литературный...
Эмили Дикинсон50
американская поэтесса
Линор Горалик16
писатель, поэт, эссеист
Вера Николаевна Полозкова144
русская поэтесса, актриса
Лилиан Хеллман6
американская писательница, сценарист и драматургЦитаты Эдна Сент-Винсент Миллей
„My candle burns at both ends;
It will not last the night;
But, ah, my foes, and, oh, my friends —
It gives a lovely light.“
— Edna St. Vincent Millay, A Few Figs from Thistles
"First Fig" from A Few Figs from Thistles (1920)
„My heart is warm with friends I make,
And better friends I'll not be knowing,
Yet there isn't a train I wouldn't take,
No matter where it's going.“
— Edna St. Vincent Millay, The Selected Poetry
"Travel", st. 3, Second April, 1921
„Many a bard's untimely death
Lends unto his verses breath“
— Edna St. Vincent Millay
Context: Many a bard's untimely death
Lends unto his verses breath;
Here's a song was never sung:
Growing old is dying young.
"To a Poet Who Died Young" in Second April (1921), p. 52
„Yet many a man is making friends with death
Even as I speak, for lack of love alone.“
— Edna St. Vincent Millay
Context: Love is not all: it is not meat nor drink
Nor slumber nor a roof against the rain;
Nor yet a floating spar to men that sink
And rise and sink and rise and sink again;
Love can not fill the thickened lung with breath,
Nor clean the blood, nor set the fractured bone;
Yet many a man is making friends with death
Even as I speak, for lack of love alone.
Sonnet XXX from Fatal Interview (1931)
„But, sure, the sky is big, I said;
Miles and miles above my head“
— Edna St. Vincent Millay
Context: But, sure, the sky is big, I said;
Miles and miles above my head;
So here upon my back I'll lie
And look my fill into the sky.
And so I looked, and, after all,
The sky was not so very tall.
The sky, I said, must somewhere stop,
And — sure enough! — I see the top!
The sky, I thought, is not so grand;
I 'most could touch it with my hand!
And reaching up my hand to try,
I screamed to feel it touch the sky.
"Renascence" (1912), st. 3 Renascence and Other Poems (1917)
„And reaching up my hand to try,
I screamed to feel it touch the sky.“
— Edna St. Vincent Millay
Context: But, sure, the sky is big, I said;
Miles and miles above my head;
So here upon my back I'll lie
And look my fill into the sky.
And so I looked, and, after all,
The sky was not so very tall.
The sky, I said, must somewhere stop,
And — sure enough! — I see the top!
The sky, I thought, is not so grand;
I 'most could touch it with my hand!
And reaching up my hand to try,
I screamed to feel it touch the sky.
"Renascence" (1912), st. 3 Renascence and Other Poems (1917)
