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Edna St. Vincent Millay Quotes
«I dread no more the first white in my hair, / Or even age itself, the easy shoe, / The cane, the wrinkled hands, the special chair / Time, doing this to me, may alter too / My sorrow, into something I can bear.»
«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.»
«Childhood is not from birth to a certain age and at a certain age / The child is grown, and puts away childish things. / Childhood is the kingdom where nobody dies. / Nobody that matters, that is.»
«Safe upon the solid rock the ugly houses stand: Come and see my shining palace built upon the sand!»
«What terrible fear causes Man to address the Void as Thou?»
«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? Edna St»
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«Euclid alone / Has looked on Beauty bare, Fortunate they / Who, though once only and then but far away, / Have heard her massive sandal set on stone.»
«I love humanity but I hate people.»
«Not truth, but faith, it is that keeps the world alive.»
«I find it's as hard to live down an early triumph as an early indiscretion.»