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Please give me some good advice in your next letter. I promise not to follow it.
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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What should I be but just what I am?
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This have I known always: Love is no more than the wide blossom which the wind assails, than the great tide that treads the shifting shore, strewing fresh wreckage gathered in the gales Pity me that the heart is slow to learn, that the swift mind beholds at every turn.
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The heart grows weary after a little Of what it loved for a little while.
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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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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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Guess I'll weep awhile. Guess I won't, I mean.
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When you publish something, it is very much as if you pulled your pants down in public. If what you have written is good, nobody can hurt you if what you have written is bad, nobody can help you.
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I am not at all in favor of hard work for its own sake many people who work very hard indeed produce terrible things, and should most certainly not be encouraged.
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I make bean stalks, I'm A builder, like yourself.
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Thus in the winter stands the lonely tree, Nor knows what birds have vanished one by one, Yet knows its boughs more silent than before
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A grave is such a quiet place.
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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!
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Parrots, tortoises and redwoods live a longer life than men do Men a longer life than dogs do Dogs a longer life than love does.
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If I love you Wednesday, What is that to you? I do not love you Thursday - so much is true.
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When you are corn and roses and at rest I shall endure, a dense and sanguine ghost To haunt the scene where I was happiest To bend above the thing I loved the most
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I screamed, and--lo!--Infinity Came down and settled over me
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A person who publishes a book appears willfully in public eye with his pants down.
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No one but Night, with tears on her dark face, watches beside me in this windy place.
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You are loved. If so, what else matters?
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April comes like an idiot, babbling and strewing flowers.
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