Beauty is whatever gives joy.
In honor of her birthdate... “I've been a wicked girl," said I: "But if I can't be sorry, why, I might as well be glad!” -Edna St. Vincent Millay 1892-1950
And other favorite quotes...
“Down, down, down into the darkness of the grave Gently they go, the beautiful, the tender, the kind; Quietly they go, the intelligent, the witty, the brave. I know. But I do not approve. And I am not resigned.”
“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.''
"My heart is warm with the friends I make,
And better friends I'll not be knowing,
Yet there isn't a train I wouldn't take,
No matter where it's going.''
''I cannot say what loves have come and gone;
I only know that summer sang in me
A little while, that in me sings no more.''
"And what are you that, missing you,
I should be kept awake
As many nights as there are days
With weeping for your sake?
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I know a man that's a braver man
And 20 men as kind,
And what are you, that you should be
The one man on my mind."
And other favorite quotes...
“Down, down, down into the darkness of the grave Gently they go, the beautiful, the tender, the kind; Quietly they go, the intelligent, the witty, the brave. I know. But I do not approve. And I am not resigned.”
“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.''
"My heart is warm with the friends I make,
And better friends I'll not be knowing,
Yet there isn't a train I wouldn't take,
No matter where it's going.''
''I cannot say what loves have come and gone;
I only know that summer sang in me
A little while, that in me sings no more.''
"And what are you that, missing you,
I should be kept awake
As many nights as there are days
With weeping for your sake?
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I know a man that's a braver man
And 20 men as kind,
And what are you, that you should be
The one man on my mind."