Edna St. Vincent Millay ✓

(1892–1950) translator United States

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[Wikidata] American poet (1892–1950)... | [Wikipedia] Edna St. Vincent Millay was an American lyrical poet and playwright. Millay was a renowned social figure and noted feminist in New York City during the Roaring Twenties and beyond. She also wrote prose under the pseudonym Nancy Boyd.

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• Not Truth, but Faith it is that keeps the world alive. Alive
• April comes like an idiot, babbling and strewing flowers. April
• Sweet love, sweet thorn, when lightly to my heart. I took your thrust, whereby I since am slain, And I lie disheveled in the grass… Apart
• Childhood is the kingdom where nobody dies. Nobody that matters, that is. Childhood
• Set the foot down with distrust on the crust of the world - it is thin. Crust
• Down, down, down into the darkness of the grave Gently they go, the beautiful, the tender, the kind; Quietly they go, the intelligent, the witty,… Approve
• 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… Age
• Hey say when you are missing someone that they are probably feeling the same, but I dont think its possible for you to miss me… Dont
• 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… Actions
• The wind of their endurance, driving south, Flattened your words against your speaking mouth. Driving

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