Edna St. Vincent Millay Quotes

A person who publishes a book willfully appears before the populace with his pants down. If it is a good book nothing can hurt him. If it is a bad book nothing can help him.

Edna St. Vincent Millay

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: author
  • Nationality: american
  • Birth: February 22, 1892 - October 19, 1950

Topics

GoodBookHurtHelpBadDown

Self-consciousness can destroy a performance. Getting rid of that is always good.

Joe Dempsie

GoodPerformanceAlwaysDestroyRid

Any long work in which poetry is persistent, be it epic or drama or narrative, is really a succession of separate poetic experiences governed into a related whole by an energy distinct from that which evoked them.

John Drinkwater

WorkPoetryEnergyLongDramaWhole

Churches can become places of cynicism, resistance, and pessimism.

John Ortberg

PlacesBecomeResistanceCynicism

Behind every corrupt politician are 10-20 corrupt businessmen.

Mo Ibrahim

CorruptPoliticianBehindEvery

People can only do what they are ready to do when they are ready to do it.

Judith Light

PeopleReadyOnly

I like coming home and sharing things I've tasted or seen.

Dianne Reeves

HomeSharingComing HomeComingSeen

It's difficult to speak with beautiful people. No matter how hard you try to pretend otherwise, you still want them to like you.

Douglas Coupland

BeautifulPeopleSpeakYouWantTry

I don't know when network executives will get out of the Dark Ages.

Connie Chung

DarkKnowWillOutGetNetwork

But when I really look back on my life, being really honest about it and now that I've got the chance to travel the world, seeing how a lot of little kids grow up - my life wasn't so bad.

Coolio

LifeTravelWorldChanceMy Life

Urban legend has it that Area 51 is connected by underground tunnels and trains to other secret facilities around the country.

Annie Jacobsen

LegendCountryConnectedSecret

Incidents of racial bias and implicit bias happen to African-Americans of every social class daily in America. White people seldom notice or dwell on these as they encounter the quotidian events of their day.

Anthea Butler

DailyDayPeopleAmericaWhiteBias

Our erected wit maketh us to know what perfection is.

Philip Sidney

PerfectionKnowWitUsOurMaketh

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