“Let all who prate of Beauty hold their peace,
And lay them prone upon the earth and cease
To ponder on themselves, the while they stare
At nothing, intricately drawn nowhere.”
About This Quote
May have been worded as: " Beauty is whatever gives joy."
More from Edna St. Vincent Millay
“But she was not made for any man, And she never will be all mine.”
“They say when you are missing someone that they are probably feeling the same, but I don’t…”
“You see, I am a poet, and not quite right in the head, darling. It’s only that.”
“Say what you will, / Call me in all things what I was before, / A flutterer in the wind, a…”