Edna St. Vincent Millay
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"Edna St. Vincent Millay" was an American lyric poetry/lyrical poet and playwright. She received the Pulitzer Prize for Poetry in 1923, the third woman to win the award for poetry, and was also known for her feminist activism and her many love affairs. She used the pseudonym "Nancy Boyd" for her prose work. The poet Richard Wilbur asserted, "She wrote some of the best sonnets of the century."

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Please give me some good advice in your next letter. I promise not to follow it.

Where you used to be, there is a hole in the world, which I find myself constantly walking around in the daytime, and falling into at night. I miss you like hell.

My candle burns at both endsIt will not last the night;But ah, my foes, and oh, my friends -It gives a lovely light.

It's not true that life is one damn thing after another; it is one damn thing over and over.

I love humanity, but I hate people.

Soar, eat ether, see what has never been seen; depart, be lost, but climb.

Life must go on; I forget just why.

Life isn't one damn thing after another. It's the same damn thing again and again.

My candle burns at both ends; It will not last the night; But ah, my foes, and oh, my friends It gives a lovely light! Edna St.

Tea was such a comfort.

April comes like an idiot, babbling and stewing flowers.

Life is a quest and love a quarrel ...

Pity me that the heart is slow to learn / What the swift mind beholds at every turn.