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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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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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Martyred many times must be Who would keep his country free.
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It's little I know what's in my heart,What's in my mind it's little I know,But there's that in me must up and start,And it's little I care where my feet go.
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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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It's not true that life is one damn thing after another it is one damn thing over and over.
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I have loved badly, loved the great Too soon, withdrawn my words too late And eaten in an echoing hall Alone and from a chipped plate The words that I withdrew too late.
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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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Youth, have no pity leave no farthing here For age to invest in compromise and fear.
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Time can make soft that iron wood.
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What the customer demands is last year's model, cheaper. To find out what the customer needs you have to understand what the customer is doing as well as he understands it. Then you build what he needs and you educate him to the fact that he needs it.
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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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Guess I'll weep awhile. Guess I won't, I mean.
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I screamed, and--lo!--Infinity Came down and settled over me
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This book, when I am dead, will be A little faint perfume of me. People who knew me well will say, She really used to think that way.
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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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Blessed be Death, that cuts in marble What would have sunk to dust!
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Not Truth, but Faith it is that keeps the world alive.
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After the feet of beauty fly my own.
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