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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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Guess I'll weep awhile. Guess I won't, I mean.
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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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Not poppy, nor mandrake, Nor all the drowsy syrups of the world, Shall ever medicine thee to that sweet sleep, Which thou owest yesterday.
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But far, oh, far as passionate eye can reach, And long, ah, long as rapturous eye can cling, The world is mine: blue hill, still silver lake, Broad field, bright flower, and the long white road A gateless garden, and an open path: My feet to follow, and my heart to hold.
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Not Truth, but Faith it is that keeps the world alive.
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Beauty in all things-no, we cannot hope for that but some place set apart for it.
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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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Pour away despair and rinse the cup. Eat happiness like bread.
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it may be said of me by Harper & Brothers, that although I reject their proposals, I welcome their advances.
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No one but Night, with tears on her dark face, watches beside me in this windy place.
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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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