American - Author | February 22, 1892 - October 19, 1950
I'm so tired of hearing about 'Renascence,' I'm nearly dead. I find it's as hard to live down an early triumph as an early indiscretion.
Edna St. Vincent Millay
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Some of us have been thinking and talking too long without doing anything. Poems are perfect; picketing, sometimes, is better.
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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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We are all ruled in what we do by impulses; and these impulses are so organized that our actions in general serve for our self preservation and that of the race.
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Set the foot down with distrust on the crust of the world - it is thin.
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I see things with my own eyes, just as if they were the first eyes that ever saw, and then I set about to tell, as best I can, just what I've seen.
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The young are so old, they are born with their fingers crossed.
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Beauty is whatever gives joy.
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I've written so many verses and keep on writing so many more that I became afraid that if I didn't write them into one big book, I might forget some of them.
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It is high time we found out about this man Cummings. Let us give him every opportunity to show us at once whether he is a genius, a charlatan, or a congenital defective - and get him off our minds.
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Not truth, but faith, it is that keeps the world alive.
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Music my rampart, and my only one.
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