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... but the rain Is full of ghosts tonight
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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I am all the time talking about you, and bragging, to one person or another. I am like the Ancient Mariner, who had a tale in his heart he must unfold to all. I am always buttonholing somebody and saying, Someday you must meet my mother.
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We think-although of course, now, we very seldom Clearly think- That the other side of War is Peace.
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Lord I do fear / Thou'st made the world too beautiful this year.
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Although we sometimes did without a few of life's necessities, we rarely lacked for its luxuries.
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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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Euclid alone Has looked on Beauty bare. Fortunate they Who, though once only and then but far away, Have heard her massive sandal set on stone.
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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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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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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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That is my being, the madness of an unaccustomed mood.
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The heart grows weary after a little Of what it loved for a little while.
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Please give me some good advice in your next letter. I promise not to follow it.
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