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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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Pour away despair and rinse the cup. Eat happiness like bread.
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I screamed, and--lo!--Infinity Came down and settled over me
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What should I be but just what I am?
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Safe upon the solid rock the ugly houses stand. Come and see my shining palace built upon the sand!
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I have loved badly, loved the great Too soon, withdrawn my words too late And eaten in an echoing hall Alone and from a chipped plate The words that I withdrew too late.
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It's not true that life is one damn thing after another it is one damn thing over and over.
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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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Cut if you will with sleep's dull knife, the years from off your life, my friend! the years that death takes off my life, he'll take from off the other end!
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Childhood Is the Kingdom Where Nobody Dies.
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Time can make soft that iron wood.
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A Poem from Edna St. Vincent Millay: Grown-up Was it for this I uttered prayers, And sobbed and cursed and kicked the stairs, That now, domestic as a plate, I should retire at half-past eight?
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After the feet of beauty fly my own.
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Oh, children, growing up to be Adventurers into sophistry, Forbear, forbear to be of those That read the rood to learn the rose.
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Guess I'll weep awhile. Guess I won't, I mean.
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It's little I know what's in my heart,What's in my mind it's little I know,But there's that in me must up and start,And it's little I care where my feet go.
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Stranger, pause and look From the dust of ages Lift this little book, Turn the tattered pages, Read me, do not let me die! Search the fading letters finding Steadfast in the broken binding All that once was I!
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Need we say it was not love, Now that love is perished?
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... but the rain Is full of ghosts tonight
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No one but Night, with tears on her dark face, watches beside me in this windy place.
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A person who publishes a book appears willfully in public eye with his pants down.
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