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Not Truth, but Faith it is that keeps the world alive.
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 not afraid of lawyers as I used to be. They are lambs in wolves' clothing.
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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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I am not a tentative person. Whatever I do, I give up my whole self to it.
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I do not think there is a woman in whom the roots of passion shoot deeper than in me.
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I screamed, and--lo!--Infinity Came down and settled over me
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O troubled forms, O early love unfortunate and hard, Time has estranged you into a jewel cold and pure
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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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Martyred many times must be Who would keep his country free.
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Please give me some good advice in your next letter. I promise not to follow it.
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Her lawn looks like a meadow, And if she mows the place She leaves the clover standing And the Queen Anne's Lace.
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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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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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I have loved badly, loved the great Too soon, withdrawn my words too late And eaten in an echoing hall Alone and from a chipped plate The words that I withdrew too late.
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A ghost in marble of a girl you knew Who would have loved you in a day or two.
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My candle burns at both ends it will not last the night but ah, my foes, and oh, my friends - it gives a lovely light!
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Beauty never slumbers All is in her name But the rose remembers The dust from which it came.
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Not poppy, nor mandrake, Nor all the drowsy syrups of the world, Shall ever medicine thee to that sweet sleep, Which thou owest yesterday.
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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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That which has quelled me, lives with me, Accomplice in catastrophe.
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