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You see, I am a poet, and not quite right in the head, darling. It’s only that.
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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A person who publishes a book willfully appears before the populace with his pants down. If it is a good book nothing can hurt him. If it is a bad book nothing can help him.
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That is my being, the madness of an unaccustomed mood.
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I had a little sorrow, Born of a little sin.
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Sorrow like a ceaseless rain Beats upon my heart. People twist and scream in pain-- Dawn will find them still again This has neither wax nor wane, Neither stop nor start.
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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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Night falls fast. Today is in the past.
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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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And all the loveliest things there be come simply, so it seems to me.
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She learned her hands in a fairy-tale, And her mouth on a valentine.
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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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Progress-progress is the dirtiest word in the language-who ever told us- And made us believe it-that to take a step forward was necessarily, was always A good idea?
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Life has no friend.
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Blessed be Death, that cuts in marble What would have sunk to dust!
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Not Truth, but Faith it is that keeps the world alive.
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Oh, friend, forget not, when you fain would note In me a beauty that was never mine, How first you knew me in a book I wrote, How first you loved me for a written line.
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All my life, Following Care along the dusty road, Have I looked back on loveliness and sighed.
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Martyred many times must be Who would keep his country free.
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Pour away despair and rinse the cup. Eat happiness like bread.
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Beauty is whatever gives joy.
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O world, I cannot hold thee close enough!
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