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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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To what purpose, April, do you return again? Beauty is not enough.
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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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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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Beauty is whatever gives joy.
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Euclid alone Has looked on Beauty bare. Fortunate they Who, though once only and then but far away, Have heard her massive sandal set on stone.
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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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A ghost in marble of a girl you knew Who would have loved you in a day or two.
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Time can make soft that iron wood.
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What should I be but just what I am?
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I am not a tentative person. Whatever I do, I give up my whole self to it.
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When I can make Of ten small words a rope to hang the world! I had you and I have you now no more.
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I love humanity but I hate people.
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If I could have two things in one: the peace of the grave, and the light of the sun.
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Guess I'll weep awhile. Guess I won't, I mean.
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I know I am but summer to your heart, and not the full four seasons of the year.
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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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Need we say it was not love, Now that love is perished?
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That which has quelled me, lives with me, Accomplice in catastrophe.
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Gently they go, the beautiful, the tender, the kind Quietly they go, the intelligent, the witty, the brave. I know. But I do not approve. And I am not resigned.
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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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