{"author":"Edna St. Vincent Millay","author_id":"Edna+St.+Vincent+Millay","total_quotes":76,"quotes":[{"text":"Music, my rampart and my only one.","author":"Edna St. Vincent Millay","tags":["freedom","inspirational","music","rampart"],"id":3724,"author_id":"Edna+St.+Vincent+Millay"},{"text":"And must I then, indeed, Pain, live with youall through my life?-sharing my fire, my bed,Sharing-oh, worst of all things!-the same head?-And, when I feed myself, feeding you too?","author":"Edna St. Vincent Millay","tags":["depression","pain","poetry","suffering"],"id":8997,"author_id":"Edna+St.+Vincent+Millay"},{"text":"What lips my lips have kissed, and where, and why,I have forgotten, and what arms have lainUnder my head till morning, but the rainIs full of ghosts tonight, that tap and sighUpon the glass and listen for reply,And in my heart there stirs a quiet painFor unremembered lads that not againWill turn to me at midnight with a cry.Thus in the winter stands the lonely tree,Nor knows what birds have vanished one by one,Yet knows its boughs more silent than before:I cannot say what loves have come and gone,I only know that summer sang in meA little while, that in me sings no more.","author":"Edna St. Vincent Millay","tags":["love","poetry"],"id":13162,"author_id":"Edna+St.+Vincent+Millay"},{"text":"I know I am but summer to your heart,And not the full four seasons of the year;And you must welcome from another partSuch noble moods as are not mine, my dear.No gracious weight of golden fruits to sellHave I, nor any wise and wintry thing;And I have loved you all too long and wellTo carry still the high sweet breast of Spring.Wherefore I say: O love, as summer goes,I must be gone, steal forth with silent drums, That you may hail anew the bird and roseWhen I come back to you, as summer comes.Else will you seek, at some not distant time, Even your summer in another clime.","author":"Edna St. Vincent Millay","tags":["commitment","completeness","love","loyalty"],"id":13815,"author_id":"Edna+St.+Vincent+Millay"},{"text":"Please give me some good advice in your next letter. I promise not to follow it.","author":"Edna St. Vincent Millay","tags":["advice","me","good advice "],"id":16310,"author_id":"Edna+St.+Vincent+Millay"},{"text":"Lie down beside these watersThat bubble from the spring;Hear in the desert silenceThe desert sparrow sing;Draw from the shapeless momentSuch pattern as you can;And cleave henceforth to Beauty;Expect no more from man.Man, with his ready answer,His sad and hearty word,For every cause in limbo,For every debt deferred,For every pledge forgotten,His eloquent and grimDeep empty gaze upon you,—Expect no more from him.","author":"Edna St. Vincent Millay","tags":["mankind","nature","poetry"],"id":24931,"author_id":"Edna+St.+Vincent+Millay"},{"text":"Pity me that the heart is slow to learnWhat the swift mind beholds at every turn.","author":"Edna St. Vincent Millay","tags":["heart","mind","poetry","reason"],"id":27066,"author_id":"Edna+St.+Vincent+Millay"},{"text":"No one but Night, with tears on her dark face, watches beside me in this windy place.","author":"Edna St. Vincent Millay","tags":["darkness","night","poetry"],"id":28315,"author_id":"Edna+St.+Vincent+Millay"},{"text":"My heart is warm with the friends I make,And better friends I'll not be knowing,Yet there isn't a train I wouldn't take,No matter where it's going.","author":"Edna St. Vincent Millay","tags":["friends","inspirational","train"],"id":47099,"author_id":"Edna+St.+Vincent+Millay"},{"text":"They say when you are missing someone that they are probably feeling the same, but I don't think it's possible for you to miss me as much as I'm missing you right now.","author":"Edna St. Vincent Millay","tags":["longing","love","missing","sadness"],"id":51248,"author_id":"Edna+St.+Vincent+Millay"}],"pagination":{"page":1,"page_size":10,"total":76,"pages":8,"next":"?page=2\u0026page_size=10"}}