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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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• Life isn't one thing after another, it's the same thing over and over.

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  One Thing, One Thing After Another

  "The Poet and Her Book: A Biography of Edna St. Vincent Millay". Book by Jean Gould, p. 198, 1969.

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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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  Educational, Lying, Fall

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• I am all the time talking about you, and bragging, to one person or another. I am like the Ancient Mariner, who had a tale in his heart he must unfold to all. I am always buttonholing somebody and saying, "Someday you must meet my mother."

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  Daughter, Mother, Heart

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

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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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  Stars, Dark, Night

  Edna St. Vincent Millay (2003). “Edna St. Vincent Millay: Selected Poems”, p.146, Library of America

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• April comes like an idiot, babbling and strewing flowers.

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  Spring, Flower, April

  Edna St Vincent, Edna St. Vincent Millay (2013). “The Edna St. Vincent Millay Collection”, p.148, eBookIt.com

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• Music my rampart, and my only one.

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  Music

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

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• I would blossom if I were a rose.

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  Rose, Ifs

  Edna St Vincent, Edna St. Vincent Millay (2013). “The Edna St. Vincent Millay Collection”, p.55, eBookIt.com

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• Here's a song was never sung: Growing old is dying young.

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  Song, Dying, Age

  Edna St. Vincent Millay (2008). “Early Poems”, p.62, Courier Corporation

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• For my omniscience paid I toll In infinite remorse of soul. All sin was of my sinning, all Atoning mine, and mine the gall Of all regret. Mine was the weight Of every brooded wrong, the hate That stood behind each envious thrust, Mine every greed, mine every lust. And all the while for every grief, Each suffering, I craved relief With individual desire, – Craved all in vain! And felt fierce fire About a thousand people crawl; Perished with each, — then mourned for all!

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  Regret, Hate, Grief

  Edna St. Vincent Millay (2013). “Renascence and Other Poems”, p.3, Courier Corporation

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• The fabric of my faithful love
  No power shall dim or ravel
  Whilst I stay here - but oh, my dear,
  If I should ever travel!

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  Travel, Faithful, Fabric

  Edna St Vincent, Edna St. Vincent Millay (2013). “The Edna St. Vincent Millay Collection”, p.31, eBookIt.com

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• The younger generation forms a country of its own. It has no geographical boundaries. I've talked with young Hungarians in Budapest, with young Italians in Rome, with young Frenchmen in Paris, and with young people all over. ... These young people are going to do things. They are going to change things.

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  Country, Rome, Paris

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• Beautiful as a dandelion-blossom golden in the green grass, this life can be.

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  Beautiful, Green, Golden

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• And all the loveliest things there be come simply, so it seems to me.

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  Simplicity, Seems

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

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• Soar, eat ether, see what has never been seen; depart, be lost, but climb.

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  Lost, Soar, Climbs

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

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• I drank at every vine, the last was like the first. I came upon no wine so wonderful as thirst.

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  Wine, Vines, Lasts

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

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• Death devours all lovely things.

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  Lovely, Lovely Things

  'Passer Mortuus Est' (1921).

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• And her voice is a string of colored beads, Or steps leading into the sea.

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  Sea, Voice, Steps

  Edna St Vincent, Edna St. Vincent Millay (2013). “The Edna St. Vincent Millay Collection”, p.141, eBookIt.com

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• Life in itself / Is nothing, / An empty cup, a flight of uncarpeted stairs. / It is not enough that yearly, down this hill, / April / Comes like an idiot, babbling and strewing flowers.

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  Flower, Cups, April

  Edna St Vincent, Edna St. Vincent Millay (2013). “The Edna St. Vincent Millay Collection”, p.148, eBookIt.com

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• The world stands out on either side No wider than the heart is wide; Above the world is stretched the sky, No higher than the soul is high. The heart can push the sea and land Farther away on either hand; The soul can split the sky in two, And let the face of God shine through. But East and West will pinch the heart That can not keep them pushed apart; And he whose soul is flat—the sky Will cave in on him by and by.

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  Heart, Hands, Sea

  "Renascence" l. 207 (1917)

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