O world, I cannot hold thee close enough!
Thy winds, thy wide grey skies!
Thy mists, that roll and rise!
Thy woods, this autumn day, that ache and sag
And all but cry with colour! That gaunt crag
To crush! To lift the lean of that black bluff!
World, World, I cannot get thee close enough!

Long have I known a glory in it all,
But never knew I this;
Here such a passion is
As stretcheth me apart,—Lord, I do fear
Thou’st made the world too beautiful this year;
My soul is all but out of me,—let fall
No burning leaf; prithee, let no bird call.

-- Edna St. Vincent Millay, "God's World"

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A quotation from Edna St. Vincent Millay

It is not enough that yearly, down this hill,
April
Comes like an idiot, babbling and strewing flowers.

Edna St. Vincent Millay (1892-1950) American poet
Poem (1920-03), “Spring,” ll. 16-18

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It is not enough that yearly, down this hill, April Comes like an idiot, babbling and strewing flowers. First published in The Chapbook, Vol. 2, No. 13 (1920-07). Collected in Second April (1921). A handwritten draft was dated 1920-03-21. Graham Greene's Babbling April (1925) was named after these lines.

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Take a book along this summer [1966].
1 print : color ; sheet 40 x 29 cm (poster format)

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A quotation from Millay

Death devours all lovely things.
   Lesbia with her sparrow
Shares the darkness. Presently
   Every bed is narrow.

Edna St. Vincent Millay (1892-1950) American poet
Poem (1921-03), “Passer Mortuus est,” st. 1, The Century Magazine, Vol. 101/79, No. 5

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Poem (1921-03), "Passer Mortuus est," st. 1, The Century Magazine, Vol. 101/79, No. 5 - Millay, Edna St. Vincent | WIST Quotations

Death devours all lovely things. Lesbia with her sparrow Shares the darkness. Presently Every bed is narrow. A reference to (and, in the title, quote from) Catullus' poem about the death of his beloved Lesbia's beloved sparrow (1, 2). Collected in Second April (1921), with slightly different punctuation. Death devours…

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A quotation from Edna St. Vincent Millay

With him for a sire and her for a dam,
What should I be but just what I am?

Edna St. Vincent Millay (1892-1950) American poet
Poem (1920-11), “The Singing-Woman from the Wood’s Edge,” Vanity Fair, Vol. 14, No. 3

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With him for a sire and her for a dam, What should I be but just what I am? Collected in A Few Figs from Thistles (1921). "Singing-Woman" is usually hyphenated in collections, but in Vanity Fair it was rendered "Singin' Woman" and in the original publication in Figs as…

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“I love Humanity; but I hate people.” — Edna St. Vincent Millay, Aria da Capo
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A quotation from Edna St Vincent Millay

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

Edna St. Vincent Millay (1892-1950) American poet
Poem (1934), “On Thought in Harness,” Wine from These Grapes, Part 4 (1934)

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

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A quotation from Edna St. Vincent Millay

And what are you that, missing you,
   I should be kept awake
As many nights as there are days
   With weeping for your sake?

Edna St. Vincent Millay (1892-1950) American poet
Poem (1921-10-31), “The Philosopher,” st. 1, Ainslee’s Magazine, Vol. 48, No. 3

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Poem (1921-10-31), "The Philosopher," st. 1, Ainslee's Magazine, Vol. 48, No. 3 - Millay, Edna St. Vincent | WIST Quotations

And what are you that, missing you, I should be kept awake As many nights as there are days With weeping for your sake? First collected in A Few Figs from Thistles (1922).

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A quotation from Edna St. Vincent Millay

Stranger, pause and look;
   From the dust of ages
Lift this little book,
   Turn the tattered pages,
Read me, do not let me die!
   Search the fading letters, finding
   Steadfast in the broken binding
All that once was I!

Edna St. Vincent Millay (1892-1950) American poet
“The Poet and His Book,” st. 6, Second April (1921)

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"The Poet and His Book," st. 6, Second April (1921) - Millay, Edna St. Vincent | WIST Quotations

Stranger, pause and look; From the dust of ages Lift this little book, Turn the tattered pages, Read me, do not let me die! Search the fading letters, finding Steadfast in the broken binding All that once was I!

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A quotation from Edna St. Vincent Millay

I shall die, but that is all that I shall do for Death; I am not on his pay-roll.

Edna St. Vincent Millay (1892-1950) American poet
Poem (1934), “Conscientious Objector,” l. 8, Wine from These Grapes, sec. 4

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