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A ghost in marble of a girl you knew Who would have loved you in a day or two.
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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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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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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A person who publishes a book appears willfully in public eye with his pants down.
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Please don't think me negligent or rude. I am both, in effect, of course, but please don't think me either.
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Time can make soft that iron wood.
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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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Youth, have no pity leave no farthing here For age to invest in compromise and fear.
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Euclid alone has looked on Beauty bare. Let all who prate of Beauty hold their peace, And lay them prone upon the earth and cease To ponder on themselves, the while they stare At nothing, intricately drawn nowhere.
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And all the loveliest things there be come simply, so it seems to me.
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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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What the customer demands is last year's model, cheaper. To find out what the customer needs you have to understand what the customer is doing as well as he understands it. Then you build what he needs and you educate him to the fact that he needs it.
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But she was not made for any man, and she will never be all mine.
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She learned her hands in a fairy-tale, And her mouth on a valentine.
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