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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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One things there's no getting by, I've been a wicked girl, Says I... But, if I can't be sorry I might as well be glad !
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Youth, have no pity leave no farthing here For age to invest in compromise and fear.
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pity me that the heart is slow to learn what the swift mind beholds at every turn.
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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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... but the rain Is full of ghosts tonight
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O world, I cannot hold thee close enough!
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What should I be but just what I am?
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That is my being, the madness of an unaccustomed mood.
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Strange how few, After alls said and done, the things that are Of moment.
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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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Let us not forget such words, and all they mean, as hatred, bitterness, and rancor greed, intolerance, bigotry let us renew our faith and pledge to man, his right to be himself and free.
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What terrible fear causes Man to address the Void as Thou?
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You are loved. If so, what else matters?
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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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It's not true that life is one damn thing after another it is one damn thing over and over.
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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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