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Although we sometimes did without a few of life's necessities, we rarely lacked for its luxuries.
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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Thus in the winter stands the lonely tree, Nor knows what birds have vanished one by one, Yet knows its boughs more silent than before
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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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O troubled forms, O early love unfortunate and hard, Time has estranged you into a jewel cold and pure
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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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No one but Night, with tears on her dark face, watches beside me in this windy place.
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This book, when I am dead, will be A little faint perfume of me. People who knew me well will say, She really used to think that way.
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Lord I do fear / Thou'st made the world too beautiful this year.
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Strange how few, After alls said and done, the things that are Of moment.
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Curse thee, Life, I will live with thee no more! Thou hast mocked me, starved me, beat my body sore! And all for a pledge that was not pledged by me, I have kissed thy crust and eaten sparingly That I might eat again, and met thy sneers With deprecations, and thy blows with tears.
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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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A person who publishes a book appears willfully in public eye with his pants down.
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Night falls fast. Today is in the past.
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The heart grows weary after a little Of what it loved for a little while.
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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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Cut if you will with sleep's dull knife, the years from off your life, my friend! the years that death takes off my life, he'll take from off the other end!
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