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A person who publishes a book appears willfully in public eye with his pants down.
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 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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Cruel of heart, lay down my song. Your reading eyes have done me wrong. Not for you was the pen bitten, And the mind wrung, and the song written.
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I love humanity but I hate people.
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Let us not forget such words, and all they mean, as hatred, bitterness, and rancor greed, intolerance, bigotry let us renew our faith and pledge to man, his right to be himself and free.
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Lord I do fear / Thou'st made the world too beautiful this year.
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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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O world, I cannot hold thee close enough!
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Martyred many times must be Who would keep his country free.
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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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