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Blessed be Death, that cuts in marble What would have sunk to dust!
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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Euclid alone has looked on Beauty bare. Let all who prate of Beauty hold their peace, And lay them prone upon the earth and cease To ponder on themselves, the while they stare At nothing, intricately drawn nowhere.
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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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Evil alone has oil for every wheel.
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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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Lord I do fear / Thou'st made the world too beautiful this year.
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I will come back to you, I swear I will And you will know me still. I shall be only a little taller Than when I went.
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