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Life has no friend.

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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No one but Night, with tears on her dark face, watches beside me in this windy place.
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Please don't think me negligent or rude. I am both, in effect, of course, but please don't think me either.
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All my life, Following Care along the dusty road, Have I looked back on loveliness and sighed.
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I have loved badly, loved the great Too soon, withdrawn my words too late And eaten in an echoing hall Alone and from a chipped plate The words that I withdrew too late.
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Stranger, pause and look From the dust of ages Lift this little book, Turn the tattered pages, Read me, do not let me die! Search the fading letters finding Steadfast in the broken binding All that once was I!
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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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I am not afraid of lawyers as I used to be. They are lambs in wolves' clothing.
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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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