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Safe upon the solid rock the ugly houses stand. Come and see my shining palace built upon the sand!
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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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
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When you publish something, it is very much as if you pulled your pants down in public. If what you have written is good, nobody can hurt you if what you have written is bad, nobody can help you.
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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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I make bean stalks, I'm A builder, like yourself.
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Not Truth, but Faith it is that keeps the world alive.
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That which has quelled me, lives with me, Accomplice in catastrophe.
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it may be said of me by Harper & Brothers, that although I reject their proposals, I welcome their advances.
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Upon this gifted age, in its dark hour falls from the sky a meteoric shower of facts They lie unquestioned, uncombined. Wisdom enough to leech us of our ill is daily spun, But there exists no loom to weave it into fabric.
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