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You are loved. If so, what else matters?

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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Youth, have no pity leave no farthing here For age to invest in compromise and fear.
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But she was not made for any man, and she will never be all mine.
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If ever I said in grief or pride, I'd tired of honest things, I lied.
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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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Gently they go, the beautiful, the tender, the kind Quietly they go, the intelligent, the witty, the brave. I know. But I do not approve. And I am not resigned.
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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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Sorrow like a ceaseless rain Beats upon my heart. People twist and scream in pain-- Dawn will find them still again This has neither wax nor wane, Neither stop nor start.
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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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All my life, Following Care along the dusty road, Have I looked back on loveliness and sighed.
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I am not at all in favor of hard work for its own sake many people who work very hard indeed produce terrible things, and should most certainly not be encouraged.
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I am not afraid of lawyers as I used to be. They are lambs in wolves' clothing.
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Need we say it was not love, Now that love is perished?
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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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I had a little sorrow, Born of a little sin.
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Childhood Is the Kingdom Where Nobody Dies.
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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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The younger generation forms a country of its own. It has no geographical boundaries. I've talked with young Hungarians in Budapest, with young Italians in Rome, with young Frenchmen in Paris, and with young people all over. ... These young people are going to do things. They are going to change things.
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Love is not all: it is not meat nor drink Nor slumber nor a roof against the rain Nor yet a floating spar to men that sink And rise and sink and rise and sink again Love can not fill the thickened lung with breath, Nor clean the blood, nor set the fractured bone Yet many a man is making friends with death Even as I speak, for lack of love alone.
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Lord I do fear / Thou'st made the world too beautiful this year.
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A person who publishes a book willfully appears before the populace with his pants down. If it is a good book nothing can hurt him. If it is a bad book nothing can help him.
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