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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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We were so wholly one I had not thought That we could die apart. I had not thought That I could move,—and you be stiff and still! That I could speak,—and you perforce be dumb! I think our heart-strings were, like warp and woof In some firm fabric, woven in and out Your golden filaments in fair design Across my duller fibre.
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One things there's no getting by, I've been a wicked girl, Says I... But, if I can't be sorry I might as well be glad !
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I make bean stalks, I'm A builder, like yourself.
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Although we sometimes did without a few of life's necessities, we rarely lacked for its luxuries.
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Beauty never slumbers All is in her name But the rose remembers The dust from which it came.
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O world, I cannot hold thee close enough!
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Love is not all: it is not meat nor drink Nor slumber nor a roof against the rain Nor yet a floating spar to men that sink And rise and sink and rise and sink again Love can not fill the thickened lung with breath, Nor clean the blood, nor set the fractured bone Yet many a man is making friends with death Even as I speak, for lack of love alone.
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If ever I said in grief or pride, I'd tired of honest things, I lied.
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Not Truth, but Faith it is that keeps the world alive.
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Beauty is whatever gives joy.
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... but the rain Is full of ghosts tonight
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The heart grows weary after a little Of what it loved for a little while.
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Safe upon the solid rock the ugly houses stand. Come and see my shining palace built upon the sand!
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I will come back to you, I swear I will And you will know me still. I shall be only a little taller Than when I went.
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To what purpose, April, do you return again? Beauty is not enough.
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Life must go on I forget just why.
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Need we say it was not love, Now that love is perished?
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But far, oh, far as passionate eye can reach, And long, ah, long as rapturous eye can cling, The world is mine: blue hill, still silver lake, Broad field, bright flower, and the long white road A gateless garden, and an open path: My feet to follow, and my heart to hold.
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Childhood Is the Kingdom Where Nobody Dies.
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Night falls fast. Today is in the past.
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