Edna St. Vincent Millay Quotes

The hard surface of the stone is impervious to nothing in the end. The heat of the sun leaves evidence of daylight. Each drop of rain changes the form; even the wind and the air itself, invisible to our eyes, etches its presence. … All history is taken in by stones.

The fall of dropping water wears away the Stone.

All the lessons are in nature. You look at the way rocks are formed - the wind and the water hitting them, shaping them, making them what they are. Things take time, you know?

Time is the great workman of Nature.

Even stone can be worn down with enough rain.

Time brings all things to pass.

O earth, what changes hast thou seen!

It is funny what a year can do.

Time has been transformed, and we have changed; it has advanced and set us in motion; it has unveiled its face, inspiring us with bewilderment and exhilaration.

Know what's weird? Day by day, nothing seems to change. But pretty soon, everything's different.

Old, deeply engrained systems take time to change, but we can't leave it to time.

It's crazy what a year can do.

Marvelous wonders don't have to happen of a sudden, the way they do in the Arabian Nights. They can also take a long time, like crystals growing, or minds changing, or leaves turning. The trick is to keep an eye peeled, so they don't slip by unappreciated.

How wonderful, how very wonderful the operations of time, and the changes of the human mind!

If foundations made of stone can turn to dust, then the hardest hearts of steel can turn to rust.

A different image came to me a few weeks ago. The unknown thing to be known appeared to me as some stretch of earth or hard marl, resisting penetration... the sea advances insensibly in silence, nothing seems to happen, nothing moves, the water is so far off you hardly hear it... yet finally it surrounds the resistant substance.

The touch of time does more than the club of Hercules.

We have passed a lot of water since then.

This was what it meant to be human, to know that time moved and all things changed.

No rock so hard but that a little wave may beat admission in a thousand years.

Time changes the nature of the whole world; Everything passes from one state to another And nothing stays like itself.

It takes time for change to take place. But then when huge changes are taking place, they are extraordinary. And it requires a kind of philosophical thinking, thinking in terms of epochs.