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Edna St. Vincent Millay [1892-1950] American

Rank: 102
Poet (with poems), Poet

Bipolar disorder, Didactism, Feminism, Formalism, Modernism, Sonnet

Edna St. Vincent Millay was an American 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.

God, Beauty, Faith, Good

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Where you used to be, there is a hole in the world, which I find myself constantly walking around in the daytime, and falling in at night. I miss you like hell.		101
The soul can split the sky in two and let the face of God shine through.	God	102
Beauty is whatever gives joy.	Beauty	103
The longest absence is less perilous to love than the terrible trials of incessant proximity.		104
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.		105
Childhood is the kingdom where nobody dies. Nobody that matters, that is.		106
Set the foot down with distrust on the crust of the world - it is thin.		107
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!		108
God, I can push the grass apart and lay my finger on Thy heart.	God	109
It's not true that life is one damn thing after another; it's one damn thing over and over.		110
I am glad that I paid so little attention to good advice; had I abided by it I might have been saved from some of my most valuable mistakes.		111
Not truth, but faith, it is that keeps the world alive.	Faith	112
The young are so old, they are born with their fingers crossed.		113
Music my rampart, and my only one.		114
What the customer demands is last year's model, cheaper. To find out what the customer needs you have to understand what the customer is doing as well as he understands it. Then you build what he needs and you educate him to the fact that he needs it.		115
Parrots, tortoises and redwoods live a longer life than men do; Men a longer life than dogs do; Dogs a longer life than love does.		116
Please give me some good advice in your next letter. I promise not to follow it.	Good	117
A person who publishes a book willfully appears before the populace with his pants down. If it is a good book nothing can hurt him. If it is a bad book nothing can help him.		118

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