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Upon this gifted age, in its dark hour falls from the sky a meteoric shower of facts They lie unquestioned, uncombined. Wisdom enough to leech us of our ill is daily spun, But there exists no loom to weave it into fabric.
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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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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Lord I do fear / Thou'st made the world too beautiful this year.
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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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Time can make soft that iron wood.
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Blessed be Death, that cuts in marble What would have sunk to dust!
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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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That which has quelled me, lives with me, Accomplice in catastrophe.
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O world, I cannot hold thee close enough!
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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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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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But she was not made for any man, and she will never be all mine.
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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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Love is not all it is not meat nor drink.
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Gently they go, the beautiful, the tender, the kind Quietly they go, the intelligent, the witty, the brave. I know. But I do not approve. And I am not resigned.
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Life must go on I forget just why.
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