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Evil alone has oil for every wheel.
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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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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Should at that moment the full moon Step forth upon the hill, And memories hard to bear at noon, By moonlight harder still, Form in the shadows of the trees, - Things that you could not spare And live, or so you thought, yet these All gone, and you still there, A man no longer what he was, Not yet the thing he planned.
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This have I known always: Love is no more than the wide blossom which the wind assails, than the great tide that treads the shifting shore, strewing fresh wreckage gathered in the gales Pity me that the heart is slow to learn, that the swift mind beholds at every turn.
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Heap not on this mound roses that she loved so well why bewilder her with roses that she cannot see or smell.
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Parrots, tortoises and redwoods live a longer life than men do Men a longer life than dogs do Dogs a longer life than love does.
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Oh, friend, forget not, when you fain would note In me a beauty that was never mine, How first you knew me in a book I wrote, How first you loved me for a written line.
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I do not think there is a woman in whom the roots of passion shoot deeper than in me.
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That which has quelled me, lives with me, Accomplice in catastrophe.
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Love is not all it is not meat nor drink.
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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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My candle burns at both ends it will not last the night but ah, my foes, and oh, my friends - it gives a lovely light!
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April comes like an idiot, babbling and strewing flowers.
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Curse thee, Life, I will live with thee no more! Thou hast mocked me, starved me, beat my body sore! And all for a pledge that was not pledged by me, I have kissed thy crust and eaten sparingly That I might eat again, and met thy sneers With deprecations, and thy blows with tears.
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And all the loveliest things there be come simply, so it seems to me.
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Beauty never slumbers All is in her name But the rose remembers The dust from which it came.
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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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What terrible fear causes Man to address the Void as Thou?
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You see, I am a poet, and not quite right in the head, darling. It’s only that.
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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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Martyred many times must be Who would keep his country free.
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