Please give me some good advice in your next letter. I promise not to follow it.

—Edna St. Vincent Millay

About Edna St. Vincent Millay

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Edna St. Vincent Millay (February 22, 1892 – October 19, 1950) was an American lyrical poet and playwright. Millay was a renowned social figure and noted feminist in New York City during the Roaring Twenties and beyond. She also wrote prose under the pseudonym Nancy Boyd.

More quotations from Edna St. Vincent Millay

Soar, eat ether, see what has never been seen; depart, be lost, but climb.

—Edna St. Vincent Millay

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

God, I can push the grass apart and lay my finger on Thy heart.

—Edna St. Vincent Millay

More quotations tagged with “advice”

Ask advice only of your equals.

—Danish Proverb

People who ask our advice almost never take it. Yet we should never refuse to give it, upon request, for it often helps us to see our own way more clearly.

—Brendan Francis

It is very difficult to live among people you love and hold back from offering them advice.

Never trust the advice of a man in difficulties.

The only thing to do with good advice is pass it on. It is never any use to oneself.

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