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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
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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My candle burns at both ends it will not last the night but ah, my foes, and oh, my friends - it gives a lovely light!
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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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Curse thee, Life, I will live with thee no more! Thou hast mocked me, starved me, beat my body sore! And all for a pledge that was not pledged by me, I have kissed thy crust and eaten sparingly That I might eat again, and met thy sneers With deprecations, and thy blows with tears.
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That which has quelled me, lives with me, Accomplice in catastrophe.
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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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If I could have two things in one: the peace of the grave, and the light of the sun.
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April comes like an idiot, babbling and strewing flowers.
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Youth, have no pity leave no farthing here For age to invest in compromise and fear.
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A person who publishes a book appears willfully in public eye with his pants down.
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You are loved. If so, what else matters?
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I am not a tentative person. Whatever I do, I give up my whole self to it.
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Childhood Is the Kingdom Where Nobody Dies.
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Stranger, pause and look From the dust of ages Lift this little book, Turn the tattered pages, Read me, do not let me die! Search the fading letters finding Steadfast in the broken binding All that once was I!
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Please don't think me negligent or rude. I am both, in effect, of course, but please don't think me either.
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Blessed be Death, that cuts in marble What would have sunk to dust!
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Please give me some good advice in your next letter. I promise not to follow it.
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