QUOTES by Edna St. Vincent Millay
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"The Prisoner All right, Go ahead! What's in a name? I guess I'll be locked into As much as I'm locked out of!"
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"Not only under ground are the brains of men Eaten by maggots, Life in itself Is nothing, An empty cup,"
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"Along my body, waking while I sleep, Sharp to the kiss, cold to the hand as snow, The scar of this encounter like a sword"
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"And you as well must die, beloved dust, And all your beauty stand you in no stead; This flawless, vital hand, this perfect head, This body of flame and steel, before the gust."
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"The sun that warmed our stooping backs and withered the weed uprooted- We shall not feel it again. We shall die in darkness, and be buried in the rain."
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"About the trees my arms I wound; Like one going mad I hugged the ground; I raised my quivering arms on high; I laughed and laughed into the sky."
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"Who's that knocking on my grave and will not let me sleep, a year has one"
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"Into each dance must be packed the panic and ecstasy of her last moment of life, for underneath was death."
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"Hard, hard it is, this anxious autumn To lift the heavy mind from its dark forebodings;"
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"I will control myself, or go inside. I will not flaw perfection with my grief. Handsome, this day: no matter who has died."
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"Heart, have no pity on this house of bone: Shake it with dancing, break it down with joy."
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"So come on out, my dear old sweet Sister, - & we'll open our oysters together."
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"A wind with a wolf's head Howled about our door, And we burned up the chairs And sat upon the floor."
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"Searching my heart for its true sorrow, This is the thing I find to be: That I am weary of words and people, Sick of the city, wanting the sea."
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"Unlike most people, I kept my mouth shut about the man I was living with."
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"Relaxing me from head to feet Love masters me, the bitter sweet O'er thy limbs breathing; Yea, Eros now, the god born blind Sweeps my soul like the mountain wind Through the oaks seething."
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"But the roaring of the fire, And the warmth of fur, And the boiling of the kettle Were beautiful to her!"
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"Learn to love blackness while there is yet time, blackness Unpatterned, blackness without horizons."
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"Yet here one time your spirit was wont to move; Here might I hope to find you day or night, And here I come to look for you, my love, Even now, foolishly, knowing you are dead."
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"...but the rain Is full of ghosts tonight, that tap and sigh Upon the glass and listen for reply..."
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"One things there's no getting by, I've been a wicked girl, Says I... But, if I can't be sorry I might as well be glad !"
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"The sky, I thought, is not so grand; I 'most could touch it with my hand! And reaching up my hand to try, I screamed to feel it touch the sky."
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"Degraded bird, I give you back your eyes forever, ascend now whither you are tossed; Forsake this wrist, forsake this rhyme; Soar, eat ether, see what has never been seen; depart, be lost, But climb."
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"But you were something more than young and sweet And fair, - and the long year remembers you."
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"The undercurrent of my every thought: To seek you, find you, have you for my own."
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"Parrots, tortoises and redwoods live a longer life than men do; Men a longer life than dogs do; Dogs a longer life than love does."
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"I saw and heard, and knew at last The How and Why of all things, past, and present, and forevermore."
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"She learned her hands in a fairy-tale, And her mouth on a valentine."
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"A ghost in marble of a girl you knew Who would have loved you in a day or two."
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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"
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"But she was not made for any man, and she will never be all mine."
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"How first you knew me in a book I wrote, How first you loved me for a written line"
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"Oh, friend, forget not, when you fain would note In me a beauty that was never mine, How first you knew me in a book I wrote, How first you loved me for a written line...."
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"When you are corn and roses and at rest I shall endure, a dense and sanguine ghost To haunt the scene where I was happiest To bend above the thing I loved the most"
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"A person who publishes a book appears willfully in public eye with his pants down."
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"And her voice is a string of colored beads, Or steps leading into the sea."
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