Edna St. Vincent Millay (February 22, 1892 – October 19, 1950) was an American lyrical poet, playwright and feminist. She received the Pulitzer Prize for Poetry in 1923, the third woman to win the award for poetry, and was also known for her 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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“Love is not all: it is not meat nor drink
Nor slumber nor a roof against the rain;”
—Edna St. Vincent Millay (18921950)
“this wonder fled,
Altered, estranged, disintegrated, lost.
Nor shall my love avail you in your hour.”
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“Music my rampart, and my only one.”
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