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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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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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If I love you Wednesday, What is that to you? I do not love you Thursday - so much is true.
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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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Beauty in all things-no, we cannot hope for that but some place set apart for it.
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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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Life must go on I forget just why.
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