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 Дикинсон51
американская поэтесса
Вера Николаевна Полозкова144
русская поэтесса, актриса
Лилиан Хеллман6
американская писательница, сценарист и драматург
Торнтон Найвен Уайлдер8
американский прозаик, драматург и эссеистЦитаты 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
„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)
„The world stands out on either side
No wider than the heart is wide“
— Edna St. Vincent Millay
Context: The world stands out on either side
No wider than the heart is wide;
Above the world is stretched the sky, —
No higher than the soul is high.
The heart can push the sea and land
Farther away on either hand;
The soul can split the sky in two,
And let the face of God shine through.
But East and West will pinch the heart
That can not keep them pushed apart;
And he whose soul is flat — the sky
Will cave in on him by and by.
"Renascence" (1912), st. 20, Renascence and Other Poems (1917)
„Love is not all: it is not meat nor drink
Nor slumber nor a roof against the rain“
— 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)
„I cannot say what loves have come and gone,
I only know that summer sang in me
A little while, that in me sings no more.“
— Edna St. Vincent Millay
Context: Thus in the winter stands the lonely tree,
Nor knows what birds have vanished one by one,
Yet knows its boughs more silent than before:
I cannot say what loves have come and gone,
I only know that summer sang in me
A little while, that in me sings no more.
Sonnet XLIII: "What lips my lips have kissed, and where, and why" (1923), Collected Poems", 1931
