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O world, I cannot hold thee close enough!
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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Not for the flag Of any land because myself was born there Will I give up my life. But I will love that land where man is free, And that will I defend.
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To what purpose, April, do you return again? Beauty is not enough.
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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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Music my rampart, and my only one.
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A person who publishes a book appears willfully in public eye with his pants down.
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What should I be but just what I am?
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Pour away despair and rinse the cup. Eat happiness like bread.
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Blessed be Death, that cuts in marble What would have sunk to dust!
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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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Beautiful as a dandelion-blossom, golden in the green grass, This life can be. Common as a dandelion-blossom, beautiful in the clean grass, not beautiful Because common, beautiful because beautiful, Noble because common, because free.
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it may be said of me by Harper & Brothers, that although I reject their proposals, I welcome their advances.
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Guess I'll weep awhile. Guess I won't, I mean.
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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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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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I know, but I do not approve. And I am not resigned.
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Not Truth, but Faith it is that keeps the world alive.
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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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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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I screamed, and--lo!--Infinity Came down and settled over me
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