Edna St. Vincent Millay - "A Few Figs from Thistles", 1920

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 - Letters, 1952
Please give me some good advice in your next letter. I promise not to follow it.
Edna St. Vincent Millay
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
Soar, eat ether, see what has never been seen; depart, be lost, but climb.
Edna St. Vincent Millay - Letters, 1952
Where you used to be, there is a hole in the world, which I find myself constantly walking around in the daytime, and falling into at night. I miss you like hell.
Edna St. Vincent Millay
It is not true that life is one damn thing after another- it is one damn thing over and over.

- Edna St. Vincent Millay - "A Few Figs from Thistles", 1920