What did Edna St. Vincent Millay mean by: let geese Gabble and hiss, but heroes seek release From dusty bondage into luminous air. - Edna St. Vincent Millay Poet · USA Copy
+ If ever I said in grief or pride, I’d tired of honest things, I lied. Feraz Zeid, December 14, 2023January 10, 2024, Edna St. Vincent Millay, Emotions, Honesty, Lying, 0 - Edna St. Vincent Millay Poet · USA
+ The longest absence is less perilous to love than the terrible trials of incessant proximity. Feraz Zeid, December 14, 2023January 10, 2024, Edna St. Vincent Millay, Absence, Love, Trials, 0 - Edna St. Vincent Millay Poet · USA
+ It’s not true that life is one damn thing after another; it is one damn thing over and over. Feraz Zeid, December 14, 2023January 10, 2024, Edna St. Vincent Millay, Perspective, Repetition, 0 - Edna St. Vincent Millay Poet · USA
+ Here’s a song was never sung: Growing old is dying young. Feraz Zeid, August 7, 2023December 12, 2023, Edna St. Vincent Millay, Age, Dying, 0 - Edna St. Vincent Millay Poet · USA
+ I would blossom if I were a rose. Feraz Zeid, August 17, 2023December 12, 2023, Edna St. Vincent Millay, 0 - Edna St. Vincent Millay Poet · USA
+ My candle burns at both ends Feraz Zeid, July 17, 2023December 12, 2023, Edna St. Vincent Millay, Candle, End, 0 - Edna St. Vincent Millay Poet · USA
+ And he whose soul is flat — the sky Will cave in on him by and by. Feraz Zeid, December 14, 2023January 10, 2024, Edna St. Vincent Millay, Consequence, Soul, 0 - Edna St. Vincent Millay Poet · USA
+ Strange how few, After alls said and done, the things that are Of moment. Feraz Zeid, December 14, 2023January 10, 2024, Edna St. Vincent Millay, Importance, Perspective, Reflection, 0 - Edna St. Vincent Millay Poet · USA
The composer opens the cage door for arithmetic, the draftsman gives geometry its freedom. - Jean Cocteau Artist · France
Nothing is lost and nothing is created in the operations of art as those of nature. - Louis Pasteur Microbiologist · France
But sure there is need of other remedies than dreaming, a weak contention of art against nature. - Michel de Montaigne Philosopher · France
If I were of the trade, I should naturalize art as much as they “artialize” nature. - Michel de Montaigne Philosopher · France
The flower is the poetry of reproduction. It is an example of the eternal seductiveness of life. - Jean Giraudoux Playwright · France
Healing,’ Papa would tell me, ‘is not a science, but the intuitive art of wooing nature.’ - W. H. Auden Poet · England
Science had better not free the minds of men too much, before it has tamed their instincts. - Jean Rostand Biologist · France