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Edna St. Vincent Millay has 155 quotes on this site. A few more worth reading:
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Upon this gifted age, in its dark hour falls from the sky a meteoric shower of facts; They lie unquestioned, uncombined. Wisdom…
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I make bean stalks, I'm A builder, like yourself.
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Heap not on this mound roses that she loved so well; why bewilder her with roses that she cannot see or smell.
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Not poppy, nor mandrake, Nor all the drowsy syrups of the world, Shall ever medicine thee to that sweet sleep, Which thou…
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Life is a quest and love a quarrel
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Under my head till morning; but the rain, Is full of ghosts tonight, that tap and sigh, Upon the glass and listen…
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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…
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Pour away despair and rinse the cup. Eat happiness like bread.
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Cut if you will with sleep's dull knife, the years from off your life, my friend! the years that death takes off…
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Let us not forget such words, and all they mean, as hatred, bitterness, and rancor greed, intolerance, bigotry; let us renew our…
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Youth, have no pity; leave no farthing here For age to invest in compromise and fear.
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The only people I really hate are servants. They're not really human beings at all.
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Sixteen candles make a lovely light But not as bright as your eyes tonight.
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I burned the candle at both ends and it often gave a lovely light.
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In one way, I suppose, I have been 'in denial' for some time, knowingly burning the candle at both ends and finding…
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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…
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This is our world. Aye, there's more than enough of darkness in it. But over everything there's all this joy, Kit. There's…
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In one was, I suppose, I have been "in denial" for some time, knowingly burning the candle at both ends and finding…
— Christopher Hitchens
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In the vaults of our hearts and brains, danger waits. All the chambers are not lovely, light and high. There are holes…
— Thomas Harris
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