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Music my rampart, and my only one.

Edna St. Vincent Millay

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Edna St. Vincent Millay
Age: 58 †
Born: 1892
Born: February 22
Died: 1950
Died: October 19
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I know, but I do not approve. And I am not resigned.
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A ghost in marble of a girl you knew Who would have loved you in a day or two.
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This book, when I am dead, will be A little faint perfume of me. People who knew me well will say, She really used to think that way.
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Her lawn looks like a meadow, And if she mows the place She leaves the clover standing And the Queen Anne's Lace.
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Euclid alone Has looked on Beauty bare. Fortunate they Who, though once only and then but far away, Have heard her massive sandal set on stone.
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Blessed be Death, that cuts in marble What would have sunk to dust!
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You are loved. If so, what else matters?
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Stranger, pause and look From the dust of ages Lift this little book, Turn the tattered pages, Read me, do not let me die! Search the fading letters finding Steadfast in the broken binding All that once was I!
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I have loved badly, loved the great Too soon, withdrawn my words too late And eaten in an echoing hall Alone and from a chipped plate The words that I withdrew too late.
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It's not true that life is one damn thing after another it is one damn thing over and over.
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Please don't think me negligent or rude. I am both, in effect, of course, but please don't think me either.
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