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“My candle burns at both ends; it will not last the night; but ah, my foes, and oh, my friends - it gives a lovely light!”
-- Edna St. Vincent Millay
#Love #Night #Light
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“I will be the gladdest thing under the sun! I will touch a hundred flowers and not pick one.”
-- Edna St. Vincent Millay
#Nature #Flower #Sun
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“The soul can split the sky in two and let the face of God shine through.”
-- Edna St. Vincent Millay
#God #Sky #Two
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“Where you used to be, there is a hole in the world, which I find myself constantly walking around in the daytime, and falling in at night. I miss you like hell.”
-- Edna St. Vincent Millay
#Broken Heart #Death #Fall
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“I am glad that I paid so little attention to good advice; had I abided by it I might have been saved from some of my most valuable mistakes.”
-- Edna St. Vincent Millay
#Mistake #Learning #Advice
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“Gently they go, the beautiful, the tender, the kind; Quietly they go, the intelligent, the witty, the brave. I know. But I do not approve. And I am not resigned.”
-- Edna St. Vincent Millay
#Beautiful #Witty #Intelligent
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“Into the darkness they go, the wise and the lovely.”
-- Edna St. Vincent Millay
#Life #Wise #Wisdom
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“Beauty is whatever gives joy.”
-- Edna St. Vincent Millay
#Beauty #Giving #Joy
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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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“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."”
-- Edna St. Vincent Millay
#Daughter #Mother #Heart
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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.”
-- Edna St. Vincent Millay
#Love #Rain #Men
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“And all the loveliest things there be come simply, so it seems to me.”
-- Edna St. Vincent Millay
#Simplicity
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“Night falls fast. Today is in the past.”
-- Edna St. Vincent Millay
#Fall #Past #Night
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“Lord I do fear / Thou'st made the world too beautiful this year.”
-- Edna St. Vincent Millay
#Beautiful #Years #World
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“Please give me some good advice in your next letter. I promise not to follow it.”
-- Edna St. Vincent Millay
#Bad Ass #Giving #Advice
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“Soar, eat ether, see what has never been seen; depart, be lost, but climb.”
-- Edna St. Vincent Millay
#Lost #Soar #Climbs
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“Pour away despair and rinse the cup. Eat happiness like bread.”
-- Edna St. Vincent Millay
#Happiness #Despair #Bread
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“Music my rampart, and my only one.”
-- Edna St. Vincent Millay
#Music
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“April comes like an idiot, babbling and strewing flowers.”
-- Edna St. Vincent Millay
#Spring #Flower #April
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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
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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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“pity me that the heart is slow to learn what the swift mind beholds at every turn.”
-- Edna St. Vincent Millay
#Learning #Heart #Mind
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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
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“So up I got in anger, And took a book I had, And put a ribbon on my hair To please a passing lad. And, "One thing there's no getting by -- I've been a wicked girl," said I; But if I can't be sorry, why, I might as well be glad!”
-- Edna St. Vincent Millay
#Girl #Sorry #Book
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“I love humanity but I hate people.”
-- Edna St. Vincent Millay
#Funny #Inspirational Love #Hate
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“A ghost in marble of a girl you knew Who would have loved you in a day or two.”
-- Edna St. Vincent Millay
#Girl #Two #Ghost
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“O world, I cannot hold thee close enough!”
-- Edna St. Vincent Millay
#World #Enough #Thee
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“Life must go on; I forget just why.”
-- Edna St. Vincent Millay
#Grief #Goes On #Forget
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“Childhood Is the Kingdom Where Nobody Dies.”
-- Edna St. Vincent Millay
#Children #Childhood #Kingdoms
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“Not Truth, but Faith it is that keeps the world alive.”
-- Edna St. Vincent Millay
#Truth #Alive #World
