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Night falls fast. Today is in the past.
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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This have I known always: Love is no more than the wide blossom which the wind assails, than the great tide that treads the shifting shore, strewing fresh wreckage gathered in the gales Pity me that the heart is slow to learn, that the swift mind beholds at every turn.
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pity me that the heart is slow to learn what the swift mind beholds at every turn.
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If I love you Wednesday, What is that to you? I do not love you Thursday - so much is true.
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O world, I cannot hold thee close enough!
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Lord I do fear / Thou'st made the world too beautiful this year.
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That is my being, the madness of an unaccustomed mood.
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You are loved. If so, what else matters?
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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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Pour away despair and rinse the cup. Eat happiness like bread.
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To what purpose, April, do you return again? Beauty is not enough.
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I am all the time talking about you, and bragging, to one person or another. I am like the Ancient Mariner, who had a tale in his heart he must unfold to all. I am always buttonholing somebody and saying, Someday you must meet my mother.
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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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Cut if you will with sleep's dull knife, the years from off your life, my friend! the years that death takes off my life, he'll take from off the other end!
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Life has no friend.
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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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Need we say it was not love, Now that love is perished?
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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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I shall die, but that is all that I shall do for Death I am not on his pay-roll.
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Please give me some good advice in your next letter. I promise not to follow it.
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A Poem from Edna St. Vincent Millay: Grown-up Was it for this I uttered prayers, And sobbed and cursed and kicked the stairs, That now, domestic as a plate, I should retire at half-past eight?
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