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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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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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But far, oh, far as passionate eye can reach, And long, ah, long as rapturous eye can cling, The world is mine: blue hill, still silver lake, Broad field, bright flower, and the long white road A gateless garden, and an open path: My feet to follow, and my heart to hold.
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No one but Night, with tears on her dark face, watches beside me in this windy place.
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Guess I'll weep awhile. Guess I won't, I mean.
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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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Heap not on this mound roses that she loved so well why bewilder her with roses that she cannot see or smell.
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Safe upon the solid rock the ugly houses stand. Come and see my shining palace built upon the sand!
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I love humanity but I hate people.
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... but the rain Is full of ghosts tonight
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And all the loveliest things there be come simply, so it seems to me.
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