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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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A ghost in marble of a girl you knew Who would have loved you in a day or two.
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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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Beauty is whatever gives joy.
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What should I be but just what I am?
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All my life, Following Care along the dusty road, Have I looked back on loveliness and sighed.
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I screamed, and--lo!--Infinity Came down and settled over me
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Love is not all: it is not meat nor drink Nor slumber nor a roof against the rain Nor yet a floating spar to men that sink And rise and sink and rise and sink again Love can not fill the thickened lung with breath, Nor clean the blood, nor set the fractured bone Yet many a man is making friends with death Even as I speak, for lack of love alone.
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Cruel of heart, lay down my song. Your reading eyes have done me wrong. Not for you was the pen bitten, And the mind wrung, and the song written.
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... but the rain Is full of ghosts tonight
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You see, I am a poet, and not quite right in the head, darling. It’s only that.
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To what purpose, April, do you return again? Beauty is not enough.
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Let us not forget such words, and all they mean, as hatred, bitterness, and rancor greed, intolerance, bigotry let us renew our faith and pledge to man, his right to be himself and free.
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What terrible fear causes Man to address the Void as Thou?
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