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Life must go on I forget just why.
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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I am not a tentative person. Whatever I do, I give up my whole self to it.
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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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Not Truth, but Faith it is that keeps the world alive.
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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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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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One things there's no getting by, I've been a wicked girl, Says I... But, if I can't be sorry I might as well be glad !
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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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Need we say it was not love, Now that love is perished?
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Pour away despair and rinse the cup. Eat happiness like bread.
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Beauty is whatever gives joy.
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The heart grows weary after a little Of what it loved for a little while.
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Evil alone has oil for every wheel.
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Curse thee, Life, I will live with thee no more! Thou hast mocked me, starved me, beat my body sore! And all for a pledge that was not pledged by me, I have kissed thy crust and eaten sparingly That I might eat again, and met thy sneers With deprecations, and thy blows with tears.
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