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Edna St. Vincent Millay

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Edna St. Vincent Millay (February 22, 1892 – October 19, 1950) was an American lyrical poet and playwright. Millay was a renowned social figure and noted feminist in New York City during the Roaring Twenties and beyond. She also wrote prose under the pseudonym Nancy Boyd.

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Quotes from Edna St. Vincent Millay

God, I can push the grass apart and lay my finger on Thy heart.

—Edna St. Vincent Millay

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

—Edna St. Vincent Millay

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.

—Edna St. Vincent Millay

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

—Edna St. Vincent Millay