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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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When I can make Of ten small words a rope to hang the world! I had you and I have you now no more.
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I will come back to you, I swear I will And you will know me still. I shall be only a little taller Than when I went.
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I had a little sorrow, Born of a little sin.
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Martyred many times must be Who would keep his country free.
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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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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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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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To what purpose, April, do you return again? Beauty is not enough.
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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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Although we sometimes did without a few of life's necessities, we rarely lacked for its luxuries.
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A grave is such a quiet place.
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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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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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What terrible fear causes Man to address the Void as Thou?
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Pour away despair and rinse the cup. Eat happiness like bread.
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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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April comes like an idiot, babbling and strewing flowers.
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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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This book, when I am dead, will be A little faint perfume of me. People who knew me well will say, She really used to think that way.
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And all the loveliest things there be come simply, so it seems to me.
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