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Guess I'll weep awhile. Guess I won't, I mean.
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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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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Upon this gifted age, in its dark hour falls from the sky a meteoric shower of facts They lie unquestioned, uncombined. Wisdom enough to leech us of our ill is daily spun, But there exists no loom to weave it into fabric.
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Thus in the winter stands the lonely tree, Nor knows what birds have vanished one by one, Yet knows its boughs more silent than before
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O world, I cannot hold thee close enough!
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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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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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Strange how few, After alls said and done, the things that are Of moment.
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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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It's not true that life is one damn thing after another it is one damn thing over and over.
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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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If I could have two things in one: the peace of the grave, and the light of the sun.
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Blessed be Death, that cuts in marble What would have sunk to dust!
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The heart grows weary after a little Of what it loved for a little while.
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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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When I can make Of ten small words a rope to hang the world! I had you and I have you now no more.
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Beauty is whatever gives joy.
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They say when you are missing someone that they are probably feeling the same, but I don't think it's possible for you to miss me as much as I'm missing you right now
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A ghost in marble of a girl you knew Who would have loved you in a day or two.
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... but the rain Is full of ghosts tonight
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