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Edna St Vincent Millay

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Edna St. Vincent Millay was an American 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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Quote Left God, I can push the grass apart and lay my finger on Thy heart. Quote Right
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Quote Left It mattering not how beautiful you were, Or how beloved above all else that dies. Quote Right
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Quote Left Please give me some good advice in your next letter. I promise not to follow it. Quote Right
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Quote Left It's not love's going hurts my days But that it went in little ways. Quote Right
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Quote Left April comes like an idiot, babbling and strewing flowers. Quote Right
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Book: Shattered Sighs