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That which has quelled me, lives with me, Accomplice in catastrophe.

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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Nancy Boyd
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Let us not forget such words, and all they mean, as hatred, bitterness, and rancor greed, intolerance, bigotry let us renew our faith and pledge to man, his right to be himself and free.
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A grave is such a quiet place.
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it may be said of me by Harper & Brothers, that although I reject their proposals, I welcome their advances.
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But she was not made for any man, and she will never be all mine.
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O world, I cannot hold thee close enough!
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Evil alone has oil for every wheel.
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You are loved. If so, what else matters?
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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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Youth, have no pity leave no farthing here For age to invest in compromise and fear.
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Need we say it was not love, Now that love is perished?
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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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Oh, children, growing up to be Adventurers into sophistry, Forbear, forbear to be of those That read the rood to learn the rose.
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Life must go on I forget just why.
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