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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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Beautiful as a dandelion-blossom, golden in the green grass, This life can be. Common as a dandelion-blossom, beautiful in the clean grass, not beautiful Because common, beautiful because beautiful, Noble because common, because free.
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Time can make soft that iron wood.
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I screamed, and--lo!--Infinity Came down and settled over me
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Should at that moment the full moon Step forth upon the hill, And memories hard to bear at noon, By moonlight harder still, Form in the shadows of the trees, - Things that you could not spare And live, or so you thought, yet these All gone, and you still there, A man no longer what he was, Not yet the thing he planned.
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What should I be but just what I am?
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April comes like an idiot, babbling and strewing flowers.
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Blessed be Death, that cuts in marble What would have sunk to dust!
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Evil alone has oil for every wheel.
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There is no shelter in you anywhere.
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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 know I am but summer to your heart, and not the full four seasons of the year.
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Need we say it was not love, Now that love is perished?
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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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Night falls fast. Today is in the past.
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The younger generation forms a country of its own. It has no geographical boundaries. I've talked with young Hungarians in Budapest, with young Italians in Rome, with young Frenchmen in Paris, and with young people all over. ... These young people are going to do things. They are going to change things.
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What the customer demands is last year's model, cheaper. To find out what the customer needs you have to understand what the customer is doing as well as he understands it. Then you build what he needs and you educate him to the fact that he needs it.
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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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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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No one but Night, with tears on her dark face, watches beside me in this windy place.
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I love humanity but I hate people.
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