Fatal Interview Quotes

“Heart, have no pity on this house of bone:
Shake it with dancing, break it down with joy.”
― Edna St. Vincent Millay, Fatal Interview: Sonnets

“Along my body, waking while I sleep,
Sharp to the kiss, cold to the hand as snow,
The scar of this encounter like a sword”
― Edna St. Vincent Millay, Fatal Interview: Sonnets

“I shall forget before the flickers mate
Your look that is today my east and west.”
― Edna St. Vincent Millay, Fatal Interview: Sonnets

“Most Wicked Words!-Forbear to Speak Them Out

Most wicked words!-forbear to speak them out.
Utter them not again; blaspheme no more
Against our love with maxims learned from Doubt:
Lest Death should get his foot inside the door.
We are surrounded by a hundred foes;
And he that at your bidding joins our feast,
I stake my heart upon it, is one of those,
Nor in their councils does he sit the least.
Hark not his whisper: he is Time’s ally,
Kinsman to Death, and leman of Despair:
Believe that I shall love you till I die;
Believe; and thrust him forth; and arm the stair;
And top the walls with spikes and splintered glass
That he pass gutted should again he pass.”
― Edna St. Vincent Millay, Fatal Interview: Sonnets

“I have a winter reason.”
― Edna St. Vincent Millay, Fatal Interview: Sonnets

“If I had loved you less or played you slyly
I might have held you for a summer more”
― Edna St. Vincent Millay, Fatal Interview: Sonnets