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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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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 world stands out on either side, No wider than the heart is wide.

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  Heart, World, Sides

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

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• Marriage...one of the most civilized institutions in the world...But...swimming is one of the most wonderful of sports, and yet there are always some people who cannot swim who insist on going into the water and getting drowned. Many people spoil marriage in a like manner. One should be sure she knows how to be married before rushing into it.

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  Sports, Swimming, Rushing

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• I am not afraid of lawyers as I used to be. They are lambs in wolves' clothing.

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  Law, Lambs, Used

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

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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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• Beautiful as a dandelion-blossom, golden in the green grass, This life can be. Common as a dandelion-blossom, beautiful in the clean grass, not beautiful Because common, beautiful because beautiful, Noble because common, because free.

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  Beautiful, Noble, Green

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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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• 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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• But far, oh, far as passionate eye can reach, And long, ah, long as rapturous eye can cling, The world is mine: blue hill, still silver lake, Broad field, bright flower, and the long white road A gateless garden, and an open path: My feet to follow, and my heart to hold.

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  Flower, Heart, Eye

  Edna St. Vincent Millay (2011). “Collected Poems”, p.67, Harper Collins

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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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• I am waylaid by beauty.

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  Beauty

  Edna St Vincent, Edna St. Vincent Millay (2013). “The Edna St. Vincent Millay Collection”, p.162, eBookIt.com

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

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  Poet, Darling

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• There is no shelter in you anywhere.

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  Shelter

  Edna St. Vincent Millay (1998). “Early Poems”, p.165, Penguin

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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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• 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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• 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.

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  Rain, Eye, Kissing

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

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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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