Edna St. Vincent Millay Quotes

I'm a passionate person; there's a lot going on underneath my carousel of blazers: a cauldron of sensitivity and emotion.

He was the first, the only love her life, and in a nature like hers such passions take deep root and die-hard.

I like to be wild in passion and calculated in expression! I'm both. I like to be wild in passion more. But I think the balance is what's essential.

I may as well tell you, here and now, that if you are going about the place thinking things pretty, you will never make a modern poet. Be poignant, man, be poignant!

There is a volatile mix, and that's because we're all intense. And there's no denying that.

I'm a passionate person, to a fault at times.

Touch'd either the Passions of Rage or Grief to a Miracle.

He who is incapable of feeling strong passions, of being shaken by anger, of living in every sense of the word, will never be a good actor.

I would rather feel things in extreme than not at all.

In order to inspire people, that's going to have to come from somewhere deep inside of you.

I'm a very passionate person. I'm Italian, it's in my blood so when I care about something, I get emotional.

I hurt hard and I love hard.

I don't know that I'm actually bipolar, but I definitely have huge mood swings, and I'm definitely passionate about the way I feel. I'm not really lukewarm one way or the other.

With subtle and finely-wrought temperaments it is always so. Their strong passions must either bruise or bend. They either slay the man, or themselves die. Shallow sorrows and shallow loves live on. The loves and the sorrows that are great are destroyed by their own plenitude.

It is hard to think of another composer who so perfectly marries form and passion.

She was sensible and clever, but eager in everything; her sorrows, her joys, could have no moderation.

Love and hate. Same passion. Same impulse

Passions are likened best to floods and streams: The shallow murmur, but the deep are dumb.

I often get myself in love trouble because I'm so passionate; I love so much and so deep.

Martha: Oh, I like your anger. I think that's what I like about you most. Your anger.

A mind might ponder its thought for an epoch, and not gain so much self-knowledge as the passion of love shall teach in a day.

I wonder whether my bleak-o-meter is set differently from other people's. I have such passion for what I do that I can't see it as bleak. When people use that word, or “grim” or “gritty,” I just think, “Oh, come on, look a bit deeper.” My films don't give you an easy ride. I can see that. The sense I get is that people have quite a physical experience with them. They feel afterwards that they've really been through something.

Pure, intense emotions. It's not about design. It's about feelings.

I think that passion if really intense is always destructive if not to the two involved, always to other people.

I never liked anyone who didn't have a temper. If you don't have a temper, you don't have any passion.