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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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After the feet of beauty fly my own.
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The heart grows weary after a little Of what it loved for a little while.
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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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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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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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Youth, have no pity leave no farthing here For age to invest in compromise and fear.
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What terrible fear causes Man to address the Void as Thou?
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We think-although of course, now, we very seldom Clearly think- That the other side of War is Peace.
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I am not afraid of lawyers as I used to be. They are lambs in wolves' clothing.
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And all the loveliest things there be come simply, so it seems to me.
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Beauty in all things-no, we cannot hope for that but some place set apart for it.
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Not poppy, nor mandrake, Nor all the drowsy syrups of the world, Shall ever medicine thee to that sweet sleep, Which thou owest yesterday.
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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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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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Time can make soft that iron wood.
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Need we say it was not love, Now that love is perished?
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I shall die, but that is all that I shall do for Death I am not on his pay-roll.
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