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Youth, have no pity leave no farthing here For age to invest in compromise and fear.
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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Safe upon the solid rock the ugly houses stand. Come and see my shining palace built upon the sand!
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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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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.
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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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I know, but I do not approve. And I am not resigned.
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One things there's no getting by, I've been a wicked girl, Says I... But, if I can't be sorry I might as well be glad !
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We were so wholly one I had not thought That we could die apart. I had not thought That I could move,—and you be stiff and still! That I could speak,—and you perforce be dumb! I think our heart-strings were, like warp and woof In some firm fabric, woven in and out Your golden filaments in fair design Across my duller fibre.
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To what purpose, April, do you return again? Beauty is not enough.
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pity me that the heart is slow to learn what the swift mind beholds at every turn.
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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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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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A person who publishes a book appears willfully in public eye with his pants down.
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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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