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
+ We think-although of course, now, we very seldom Clearly think- That the other side of War is Peace. Feraz Zeid, December 14, 2023January 10, 2024, Edna St. Vincent Millay, Peace, Reflection, War, 0 - Edna St. Vincent Millay Poet · USA
+ Love is not all; it is not meat nor drink. Feraz Zeid, October 8, 2023December 26, 2023, Edna St. Vincent Millay, Love, Meat, 0 - Edna St. Vincent Millay Poet · USA
+ Martyred many times must be Who would keep his country free. Feraz Zeid, June 5, 2023December 12, 2023, Edna St. Vincent Millay, Country, Liberty, 0 - Edna St. Vincent Millay Poet · USA
+ I drank at every vine, the last was like the first. I came upon no wine so wonderful as thirst. Feraz Zeid, December 14, 2023January 10, 2024, Edna St. Vincent Millay, Appreciate, Thirst, Wine, 0 - Edna St. Vincent Millay Poet · USA
+ Without music I should wish to die. Feraz Zeid, July 22, 2023December 12, 2023, Edna St. Vincent Millay, Music, 0 - Edna St. Vincent Millay Poet · USA
+ Ah, I could lay me down in this long grass And close my eyes, and let the quiet wind Blow over me Feraz Zeid, December 14, 2023January 10, 2024, Edna St. Vincent Millay, Nature, Relaxation, Serenity, 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
+ Blessed be Death, that cuts in marble What would have sunk to dust! Feraz Zeid, December 14, 2023January 10, 2024, Edna St. Vincent Millay, Death, Legacy, Mortality, 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