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To what purpose, April, do you return again?
Beauty is not enough.

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Spring, Purpose, Return

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

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I hate people but I love gatherings.

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Hate, People, Gathering

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My candle burns at both ends

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Ends, Candle

A Few Figs from Thistles "First Fig" l. 1 (1920)

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The Englishman foxtrots as he fox-hunts, with all his being, through thickets, through ditches, over hedges, through chiffons, through waiters, over saxophones, to the victorious finish; and who goes home depends on how many the ambulance will accommodate.

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Home, Saxophone, Foxes

Edna St. Vincent Millay (1924). “Distressing dialogues”

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After all my erstwhile dear, my no longer cherished; Need we say it was not love, just because it perished?

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Heartbreak, Needs, Dear

Edna St. Vincent Millay (2003). “Edna St. Vincent Millay: Selected Poems”, p.59, Library of America

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And he whose soul is flat -- the sky Will cave in on him by and by.

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Sky, Soul, Caves

Edna St. Vincent Millay (2013). “Early Poems”, p.8, Courier Corporation

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She is happy where she lies With the dust upon her eyes.

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Lying, Eye, Dust

Edna St Vincent, Edna St. Vincent Millay (2013). “The Edna St. Vincent Millay Collection”, p.185, eBookIt.com

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If I love you Wednesday, What is that to you? I do not love you Thursday - so much is true.

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Love, Thursday, Wednesday

Edna St Vincent, Edna St. Vincent Millay (2013). “The Edna St. Vincent Millay Collection”, p.30, eBookIt.com

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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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Brother, May, Welcome

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

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A Poem from Edna St. Vincent Millay: Grown-up Was it for this I uttered prayers, And sobbed and cursed and kicked the stairs, That now, domestic as a plate, I should retire at half-past eight?

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Prayer, Past, Eight

Edna St. Vincent Millay (1991). “Edna St. Vincent Millay: selected poems : the centenary edition”, Harpercollins

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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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Hurt, Book, Writing

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After the feet of beauty fly my own.

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Feet, My Own

Edna St Vincent, Edna St. Vincent Millay (2013). “The Edna St. Vincent Millay Collection”, p.41, eBookIt.com

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Father, I beg of Thee a little task To dignify my days, 'tis all I ask.

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Father, Tasks, Littles

Edna St Vincent, Edna St. Vincent Millay (2013). “The Edna St. Vincent Millay Collection”, p.132, eBookIt.com

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l am not resigned to the shutting away of loving hearts in the hard ground. So it is, and so it will be, for so it has been, time out of mind: Into the darkness they go, the wise and the lovely. Crowned With lilies and with laurel they go; but I am not resigned.

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Wise, Time, Heart

Edna St. Vincent Millay (2003). “Edna St. Vincent Millay: Selected Poems”, p.94, Library of America

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I make bean stalks, I'm A builder, like yourself.

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Work, Garden, Essentials

Edna St Vincent, Edna St. Vincent Millay (2013). “The Edna St. Vincent Millay Collection”, p.159, eBookIt.com

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Lord, I do fear Thou'st made the world too beautiful this year My soul is all but out of me-let fall No burning leaf; prithee, let no bird call.

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Beautiful, Fear, Fall

1917 God's World.

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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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Education, Children, Growing Up

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

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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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Hard Times, Jewels, Lovers

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

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I know I am but summer to your heart, And not the full four seasons of the year; And you must welcome from another part Such noble moods as are not mine, my dear. No gracious weight of golden fruits to sell Have I, nor any wise and wintry thing; And I have loved you all too long and well To carry still the high sweet breast of Spring. Wherefore I say: O love, as summer goes, I must be gone, steal forth with silent drums, That you may hail anew the bird and rose When I come back to you, as summer comes. Else will you seek, at some not distant time, Even your summer in another clime.

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Summer, Wise, Sweet

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

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He that would eat of love must eat it where it hangs.

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Love

Edna St. Vincent Millay (2003). “Edna St. Vincent Millay: Selected Poems”, p.75, Library of America

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Longing alone is singer to the lute.

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Singers, Longing

Edna St. Vincent Millay (2014). “Millay: Poems”, p.156, Everyman's Library

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When we are old and these rejoicing veins
Are frosty channels to a muted stream,
And out of all our burning there remains
No feeblest spark to fire us, even in dream,
This be our solace: that it was not said
When we were young and warm and in our prime,
Upon our couch we lay as lie the dead,
Sleeping away the unreturning time.

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Dream, Lying, Sleep

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

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Spring TO what purpose, April, do you return again? Beauty is not enough. You can no longer quiet me with the redness Of little leaves opening stickily. I know what I know. The sun is hot on my neck as I observe The spikes of the crocus. The smell of the earth is good. It is apparent that there is no death. But what does that signify? Not only under ground are the brains of men Eaten by maggots. 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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Spring, Flower, Men

Edna St. Vincent Millay (2009). “Second April: Easyread Super Large 18pt Edition”, p.1, ReadHowYouWant.com

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Euclid Alone Has Looked on Beauty Bare.

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Math, Euclid, Mathematical Beauty

"Euclid Alone Has Looked on Beauty Bare" l. 11 (1923)

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I screamed, and--lo!--Infinity
Came down and settled over me

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Down And, Infinity

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

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Born: February 22, 1892
Died: October 19, 1950
Occupation: Poet
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