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One Quotes by Edna St. Vincent Millay
- I am all the time talking about you, and bragging, to one person or another. I am like the Ancient Mariner, who had a tale…
- It's not true that life is one damn thing after another; it is one damn thing over and over.
- Summer set lip to earth's bosom bare, And left the flushed print in a poppy there. I will touch a hundred flowers And not pick…
- Music my rampart, and my only one.
- We were so wholly one I had not thought That we could die apart. I had not thought That I could move,—and you be stiff…
- What lips my lips have kissed, and where, and why, I have forgotten, and what arms have lain Under my head till morning, but the…
- So up I got in anger, And took a book I had, And put a ribbon on my hair To please a passing lad. And,…
- I will be the gladdest thing under the sun! I will touch a hundred flowers and not pick one.
- No one but Night, with tears on her dark face, watches beside me in this windy place.
- Ah! Up then from the ground sprang I And hailed the earth with such a cry As is not heard save from a man Who…
- And what are you that, missing you, I should be kept awake As many nights as there are days With weeping for your sake? And…
- 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…
- The first rose on my rose-tree Budded, bloomed, and shattered, During sad days when to me Nothing mattered. Grief or grief has drained me clean;…
- To a Young Poet Time cannot break the bird's wing from the bird. Bird and wing together Go down, one feather. No thing that ever…
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