Edna St. Vincent Millay Quotes

I Avoid The Looming Visitor,
Flee Him Adroitly Around Corners,
Hating Him, Wishing Him Well;

Lest If He Confront Me I Be Forced To Say What Is In No Wise True:
That He Is Welcome; That I Am Unoccupied;
And Forced To Sit While The Potted Roses Wilt In The Crate Or The Sonnet Cools

Bending A Respectful Nose Above Such Dried Philosophies
As Have Hung In Wreaths From The Rafters Of My House Since I Was A Child.

Some Trace Of Kindliness In This, No Doubt,
There May Be.
But Not Enough To Keep A Bird Alive.

There Is A Flaw Amounting To A Fissure
In Such Behaviour.

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