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“I am not a tentative person. Whatever I do, I give up my whole self to it.”

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A compilation of personal and professional exchanges that delve into the complexities of human connection and introspection. more

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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

“The younger generation forms a country of its own. It has no geographical boundaries. I've talked with young Hungarians in Budapest, with young Italians in Rome, with young Frenchmen in Paris, and with young people all over. ... These young people are going to do things. They are going to change things.”

People Country Form Young Generations Youth Boundaries Paris Rome Younger Generation Frenchmen Hungarians Budapest

Author:Edna St. Vincent Millay

“Although we sometimes did without a few of life's necessities, we rarely lacked for its luxuries.”

Sometimes Luxury

Author:Edna St. Vincent Millay

“There is a hate layer of opinion and emotion in America. There will be other McCarthys to come who will be hailed as its heroes.”

America Hate Emotion Opinion Hero Layers

Book:The Unfinished Country

Source: The Unfinished Country

“There are some who become spies for money, or out of vanity and megalomania, or out of ambition, or out of a desire for thrills. But the malady of our time is of those who become spies out of idealism.”

Desire Ambition Vanity Our Time Idealism Spy Espionage Malady Megalomania

Book:The unfinished country: a book of American symbols

Source: The unfinished country: a book of American symbols

“I do not know if Alice in Wonderland was an original story-I was, at least, no conscious imitator in writing it-but I do know that, since it came out, something like a dozen story-books have appeared, on identically the same pattern. The path I timidly explored believing myself to be 'the first that ever burst into that silent sea'-is now a beaten high-road: all the way-side flowers have long ago been trampled into the dust: and it would be courting disaster for me to attempt that style again.”

Source: Alice's Adventures in Wonderland and Other Tales

“Fading, with the Night, the memory of a dead love, and the withered leaves of a blighted hope, and the sickly repinings and moody regrets that numb the best energies of the soul: and rising, broadening, rolling upward like a living flood, the manly resolve, and the dauntless will, and the heavenward gaze of faith-the substance of things hoped for, the evidence of things not seen!”

Soul Night Energy Memories Regret Evidence Substance Rising Resolve Flood Rolling Numb Manly Fading Withered Moody Dauntless Withered Leaves

Book:Alice's Adventures in Wonderland and Other Tales

Source: Alice's Adventures in Wonderland and Other Tales

“Old age is by nature rather talkative.”

Age Old Age Talkative

Book:Three Books of Offices; Or, Moral Duties: Also His Cato Major, an Essay on Old Age; Laelius, an Essay on Friendship; Paradoxes; Scipio's Dream; and Letter to Quintus on the Duties of a Magistrate. Literally Translated, with Notes, Designed to Exhibit a Comparative View of the Opinions of Cicero, and Those of Modern Moralists and Ethical Philosophers

Source: Three Books of Offices; Or, Moral Duties: Also His Cato Major, an Essay on Old Age; Laelius, an Essay on Friendship; Paradoxes; Scipio's Dream; and Letter to Quintus on the Duties of a Magistrate. Literally Translated, with Notes, Designed to Exhibit a Comparative View of the Opinions of Cicero, and Those of Modern Moralists and Ethical Philosophers

“No man in his senses will dance.”

Men Dancing Senses

Author:Marcus Tullius Cicero

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