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Martyred many times must be Who would keep his country free.
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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Upon this gifted age, in its dark hour falls from the sky a meteoric shower of facts They lie unquestioned, uncombined. Wisdom enough to leech us of our ill is daily spun, But there exists no loom to weave it into fabric.
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We were so wholly one I had not thought That we could die apart. I had not thought That I could move,—and you be stiff and still! That I could speak,—and you perforce be dumb! I think our heart-strings were, like warp and woof In some firm fabric, woven in and out Your golden filaments in fair design Across my duller fibre.
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Guess I'll weep awhile. Guess I won't, I mean.
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Life must go on I forget just why.
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Blessed be Death, that cuts in marble What would have sunk to dust!
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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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And all the loveliest things there be come simply, so it seems to me.
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Need we say it was not love, Now that love is perished?
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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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Cruel of heart, lay down my song. Your reading eyes have done me wrong. Not for you was the pen bitten, And the mind wrung, and the song written.
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I shall die, but that is all that I shall do for Death I am not on his pay-roll.
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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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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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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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The heart grows weary after a little Of what it loved for a little while.
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I know, but I do not approve. And I am not resigned.
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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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Beauty is whatever gives joy.
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Love is not all it is not meat nor drink.
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When you publish something, it is very much as if you pulled your pants down in public. If what you have written is good, nobody can hurt you if what you have written is bad, nobody can help you.
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