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• Please give me some good advice in your next letter. I promise not to follow it.

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  Bad Ass, Giving, Advice

  Edna St. Vincent Millay (1952). “Letters”

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• Without music I should wish to die.

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  Music, Wish To Die, Should

  Edna St. Vincent Millay (1972). “Letters of Edna St. Vincent Millay”

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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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  Thinking, Rude, Manners

  Edna St. Vincent Millay (1952). “Letters”

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• What lips my lips have kissed, and where, and why, I have forgotten, and what arms have lain Under my head till morning, but the rain Is full of ghosts tonight, that tap and sigh Upon the glass and listen for reply, And in my heart there stirs a quiet pain For unremembered lads that not again Will turn to me at midnight with a cry. 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: I cannot say what loves have come and gone, I only know that summer sang in me A little while, that in me sings no more.

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  Summer, Lonely, Morning

  Harp-Weaver and Other Poems (1923) sonnet 19

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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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  Book, Thinking, People

  Edna St. Vincent Millay (1956). “Collected Poems”, HarperCollins Publishers

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• Beauty never slumbers; All is in her name; But the rose remembers The dust from which it came.

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  Beauty, Beautiful, Dust

  Edna St. Vincent Millay (2003). “Edna St. Vincent Millay: Selected Poems”, p.68, Library of America

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• What should I be but just what I am?

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  Should, Should I

  Edna St. Vincent Millay (1921). “A Few Figs from Thistles”, p.8, Library of Alexandria

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• O world, I cannot hold thee close enough!

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  World, Enough, Thee

  Edna St. Vincent Millay (2013). “Early Poems”, p.17, Courier Corporation

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• Strange how few, After alls said and done, the things that are Of moment.

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  Done, Strange, Moments

  Edna St Vincent, Edna St. Vincent Millay (2013). “The Edna St. Vincent Millay Collection”, p.125, eBookIt.com

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• They say when you are missing someone that they are probably feeling the same, but I don't think it's possible for you to miss me as much as I'm missing you right now

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  Love, Sad, I Miss You

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• Ah, I could lay me down in this long grass And close my eyes, and let the quiet wind Blow over me

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  Eye, Blow, Long Grass

  Edna St Vincent, Edna St. Vincent Millay (2013). “The Edna St. Vincent Millay Collection”, p.155, eBookIt.com

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• Oh, you mean I'm a homosexual! Of course I am, and heterosexual too, but what's that got to do with my headache?

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  Mean, Headache, Sexuality

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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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  Rocks, House, Shining

  A Few Figs From Thistles (1920) "Second Fig"

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• Love is not all: it is not meat nor drink
  Nor slumber nor a roof against the rain;
  Nor yet a floating spar to men that sink
  And rise and sink and rise and sink again;
  Love can not fill the thickened lung with breath,
  Nor clean the blood, nor set the fractured bone;
  Yet many a man is making friends with death
  Even as I speak, for lack of love alone.

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  Life, Rain, Love Is

  "Love Is Not All" l. 1 (1931)

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• The longest absence is less perilous to love than the terrible trials of incessant proximity.

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  Inspirational, Trials, Absence

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• Not Truth, but Faith it is that keeps the world alive.

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  Inspirational, Truth, Alive

  Edna St Vincent, Edna St. Vincent Millay (2013). “The Edna St. Vincent Millay Collection”, p.127, eBookIt.com

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• Life isn't all beer and skittles; few of us have touched a skittle in years.

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  Beer, Years, Skittles

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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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  Giving Up, Passion, Self

  Edna St. Vincent Millay (1952). “Letters”

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• Time does not bring relief; you all have lied Who told me time would ease me of my pain! I miss him in the weeping of the rain; I want him at the shrinking of the tide; The old snows melt from every mountain-side, And last year's leaves are smoke in every lane; But last year's bitter loving must remain Heaped on my heart, and my old thoughts abide! There are a hundred places where I fear To go,--so with his memory they brim! And entering with relief some quiet place Where never fell his foot or shone his face I say, 'There is no memory of him here!' And so stand stricken, so remembering him!

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  Pain, Memories, Rain

  Edna St. Vincent Millay (2014). “Millay: Poems”, p.56, Everyman's Library

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• And what are you that, missing you, I should be kept awake As many nights as there are days With weeping for your sake? And what are you that, missing you, As many days as crawl I should be listening to the wind And looking at the wall? I know a man that’s a braver man And twenty men as kind, And what are you, that you should be The one man in my mind? Yet women’s ways are witless ways, As any sage will tell,— And what am I, that I should love So wisely and so well?

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  Wall, Night, Men

  Edna St. Vincent Millay (2003). “Edna St. Vincent Millay: Selected Poems”, p.55, Library of America

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• I know I am but summer to your heart, and not the full four seasons of the year.

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  Relationship, Summer, Heart

  Edna St. Vincent Millay (2014). “Millay: Poems”, p.170, Everyman's Library

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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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  Book, Dust, Broken

  Edna St Vincent, Edna St. Vincent Millay (2013). “The Edna St. Vincent Millay Collection”, p.166, eBookIt.com

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• SHE is neither pink nor pale, And she never will be all mine; She learned her hands in a fairy-tale, And her mouth on a valentine. She has more hair than she needs; In the sun ’tis a woe to me! And her voice is a string of colored beads, Or steps leading into the sea. She loves me all that she can, And her ways to my ways resign; But she was not made for any man, And she never will be all mine.

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  Valentine, Men, Hands

  Edna St. Vincent Millay (2011). “Renascence and Other Poems”, p.36, Courier Corporation

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• I dread no more the first white in my hair, Or even age itself, the easy shoe, The cane, the wrinkled hands, the special chair: Time, doing this to me, may alter too My anguish, into something I can bear

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  Hair, Hands, Shoes

  Edna St. Vincent Millay (2003). “Selected Poems”

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• Into the darkness they go, the wise and the lovely.

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  Life, Wise, Wisdom

  Edna St. Vincent Millay, Frances Schoonmaker (1999). “Edna St. Vincent Millay”, p.30, Sterling Publishing Company, Inc.

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