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Dust in an urn long since, dispersed and dead Is great Apollo and the happier he
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Edna St. Vincent Millay
Age: 58 †
Born: 1892
Born: February 22
Died: 1950
Died: October 19
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Pour away despair and rinse the cup. Eat happiness like bread.
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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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No one but Night, with tears on her dark face, watches beside me in this windy place.
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I am not at all in favor of hard work for its own sake many people who work very hard indeed produce terrible things, and should most certainly not be encouraged.
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Her lawn looks like a meadow, And if she mows the place She leaves the clover standing And the Queen Anne's Lace.
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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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A person who publishes a book appears willfully in public eye with his pants down.
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There is no shelter in you anywhere.
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Oh, children, growing up to be Adventurers into sophistry, Forbear, forbear to be of those That read the rood to learn the rose.
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Upon this gifted age, in its dark hour falls from the sky a meteoric shower of facts They lie unquestioned, uncombined. Wisdom enough to leech us of our ill is daily spun, But there exists no loom to weave it into fabric.
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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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I am not a tentative person. Whatever I do, I give up my whole self to it.
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Strange how few, After alls said and done, the things that are Of moment.
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I will come back to you, I swear I will And you will know me still. I shall be only a little taller Than when I went.
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I love humanity but I hate people.
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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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Childhood Is the Kingdom Where Nobody Dies.
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Music my rampart, and my only one.
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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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