Quote#Friendship
My candle burns at both ends
Quote byEdna St. Vincent Millay · 1892–1950
Commonly attributed — not confirmed in an authoritative edition. Cited on Wikiquote to: "First Fig" from A Few Figs from Thistles (1920).
English (original)
My candle burns at both ends; It will not last the night; But, ah, my foes, and, oh, my friends — It gives a lovely light.
— Edna St. Vincent Millay
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It's little I know what's in my heart, What's in my mind it's little I know, But there's that in me must up and start, And it's little I care where my feet go.
And reaching up my hand to try, I screamed to feel it touch the sky.
The heart can push the sea and land Farther away on either hand
The world stands out on either side No wider than the heart is wide
But, sure, the sky is big, I said; Miles and miles above my head
Safe upon the solid rock the ugly houses stand; Come and see my shining palace built upon the sand!