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After the feet of beauty fly my own.

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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Rockland
Maine
Nancy Boyd
Edna St. Vincent Millay
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Beauty

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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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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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The heart grows weary after a little Of what it loved for a little while.
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Strange how few, After alls said and done, the things that are Of moment.
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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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Need we say it was not love, Now that love is perished?
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Guess I'll weep awhile. Guess I won't, I mean.
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A person who publishes a book willfully appears before the populace with his pants down. If it is a good book nothing can hurt him. If it is a bad book nothing can help him.
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Safe upon the solid rock the ugly houses stand. Come and see my shining palace built upon the sand!
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What the customer demands is last year's model, cheaper. To find out what the customer needs you have to understand what the customer is doing as well as he understands it. Then you build what he needs and you educate him to the fact that he needs it.
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April comes like an idiot, babbling and strewing flowers.
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O troubled forms, O early love unfortunate and hard, Time has estranged you into a jewel cold and pure
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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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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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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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The younger generation forms a country of its own. It has no geographical boundaries. I've talked with young Hungarians in Budapest, with young Italians in Rome, with young Frenchmen in Paris, and with young people all over. ... These young people are going to do things. They are going to change things.
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Life has no friend.
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That is my being, the madness of an unaccustomed mood.
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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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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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