Edna St. Vincent Millay Quotes

Real elation is when you feel you could touch a star without standing on tiptoe.

Reach Up Your Hand... and take a star.

Ah! Up then from the ground sprang I And hailed the earth with such a cry As is not heard save from a man Who has been dead, and lives again. About the trees my arms I wound; Like one gone mad I hugged the ground; I raised my quivering arms on high; I laughed and laughed into the sky.

It's hard to hold the hand of anyone who is reaching for the sky just to surrender

I always believe that the sky is the beginning of the limit.

It is the greatest shot of adrenaline to be doing what you have wanted to do so badly. You almost feel like you could fly without the plane.

Playing lifts you out of yourself into a delirious place.

I came from the projects. So there were times I'd wake up at night, and my palms would be itching to get out. But no matter where I was, I always looked at the stars, because there's nothing ugly about the sky. That was my escape.

Clap your hands if you feel like a room without a roof

Everything in me feels fluttering and free, like I could take off from the ground at any second. Music, I think, he makes me feel like music.

Hope. Nothing is more intoxicating.

I belive I can fly, I believe I can touch the sky.

Nothing will ever equal that moment of exhilaration which filled my whole being when I felt myself flying away from the earth. It was not mere pleasure; it was perfect bliss.

The dust's for crawling, heaven's for flying, Wherefore, O Soul, whose wings are grown, Soar upward to the sun!

Each time I leaped I seemed to touch the sky and when I regained earth it seemed to be mine alone.

Feel exhilarated by this whole process. You want to be high, happy, in tune.

Joy makes us giddy, dizzy.

There is here, what is not in the old country. In spite of hard, unfamiliar things, there is here - hope. In the old country, a man can be no more than his father, providing he works hard. If his father was a carpenter, he may be a carpenter. He many not be a teacher or a priest. He may rise - but only to his father's state. In the old country, a man is given to the past. Here he belongs to the future. In this land, he may be what he will, if he has the good heart and the way of working honestly at the right things.

An aspiration is a joy forever, a possession as solid as a landed estate.

Football is hope. To be a better human being but also hope one day, one day, to leave your country to be somewhere, let's say admired, as a football star.

Every time I dance I have a high. I mean every time I danced, it was the whole world was the stage and I was in control of it and there was a form and a ritual and yet it was spontaneous and life didn't matter after that of before

It is better to aim high and miss than to aim low and hit.

You can feel the stars and the infinity of the sky since life, in spite of everything, is like a dream.

I cry, Love! Love! Love! happy happy Love! free as the mountain wind!