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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

  Edna St. Vincent Millay

  Love, Sad, I Miss You

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• What terrible fear causes Man to address the Void as Thou?

  Edna St. Vincent Millay

  Men, Addresses, Void

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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.

  Edna St. Vincent Millay

  Summer, Lonely, Morning

  Harp-Weaver and Other Poems (1923) sonnet 19

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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?

  Edna St. Vincent Millay

  Mean, Headache, Sexuality

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

  Edna St. Vincent Millay

  Inspirational, Trials, Absence

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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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• 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.

  Edna St. Vincent Millay

  Book, Thinking, People

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

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• What should I be but just what I am?

  Edna St. Vincent Millay

  Should, Should I

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

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• You see, I am a poet, and not quite right in the head, darling. It’s only that.

  Edna St. Vincent Millay

  Poet, Darling

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• O world, I cannot hold thee close enough!

  Edna St. Vincent Millay

  World, Enough, Thee

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

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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.

  Edna St. Vincent Millay

  Thinking, Rude, Manners

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

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• Without music I should wish to die.

  Edna St. Vincent Millay

  Music, Wish To Die, Should

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

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• I would I were alive again To kiss the fingers of the rain, To drink into my eyes the shine Of every slanting silver line, To catch the freshened, fragrant breeze From drenched and dripping apple-trees. For soon the shower will be done, And then the broad face of the sun Will laugh above the rain-soaked earth Until the world with answering mirth Shakes joyously, and each round drop Rolls twinkling, from its grass-blade top.

  Edna St. Vincent Millay

  Rain, Eye, Kissing

  Edna St. Vincent Millay (2013). “Early Poems”, p.6, Courier Corporation

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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

  Edna St. Vincent Millay

  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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• 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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• Need we say it was not love, Now that love is perished?

  Edna St. Vincent Millay

  Love, Love Is, Needs

  'Passer Mortuus Est' (1921)

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• The heart grows weary after a little Of what it loved for a little while.

  Edna St. Vincent Millay

  Heart, Littles, Constancy

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

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• You wrote me a beautiful letter, I wonder if you meant it to be as beautiful as it was. I think you did; for somehow I know that your feeling for me, however slight it is, is of the nature of love... When you tell me to come, I will come, by the next train, just as I am. This is not meekness, be assured; I do not come naturally by meekness; know that it is a proud surrender to You.

  Edna St. Vincent Millay

  Love, Beautiful, Dream

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• The young are so old, they are born with their fingers crossed.

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  Young, Fingers, Born

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

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

  Edna St. Vincent Millay

  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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• God, I can push the grass apart and lay my finger on Thy heart.

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  God, Heart, Fingers

  Edna St Vincent, Edna St. Vincent Millay (2013). “The Edna St. Vincent Millay Collection”, p.121, eBookIt.com

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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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• I am not a tentative person. Whatever I do, I give up my whole self to it.

  Edna St. Vincent Millay

  Giving Up, Passion, Self

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

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• Safe upon the solid rock the ugly houses stand. Come and see my shining palace built upon the sand!

  Edna St. Vincent Millay

  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.

  Edna St. Vincent Millay

  Life, Rain, Love Is

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

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