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“The young are so old, they are born with their fingers crossed.”

Quote by Edna St. Vincent Millay

Book:Collected Poems

Work

Collected Poems

This book is a collection of poems that spans different styles and themes, showcasing the diversity of poetic expression. more

Author

Edna St. Vincent Millay

American poet, known for her lyrical and free verse poetry. Her poems are characterized by their deep portrayal of nature, love, and the female experience. Millay won the Pulitzer Prize for Poetry in 1923, becoming the first woman to receive the award. more

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“Music my rampart, and my only one.”

Book:Collected Poems

Source: Collected Poems

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Book:Letters

Source: Letters

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“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.”

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Author:Edna St. Vincent Millay

“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.”

Self Action Race Impulse Organized Preservation Our Actions Self Preservation

Author:Edna St. Vincent Millay

“To dance is to be out of yourself. Larger, more beautiful, more powerful. This is power, it is glory on earth and it is yours for the taking.”

“No trumpets sound when the important decisions of our life are made. Destiny is made known silently.”

Source: Dance to the Piper

“The truest expression of a people is in its dances and its music. Bodies never lie.”

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“The universe lies before you on the floor, in the air, in the mysterious bodies of your dancers, in your mind. From this voyage no one returns poor or weary.”

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Author:Agnes de Mille

“In '74 it was really a very gloomy atmosphere, I would say, to put it mildly.”

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