Edna St. Vincent Millay Quotes

Love Is Not All
Love Is Not All: It Is Not Meat Nor Drink
Nor Slumber Nor A Roof Against The Rain;
Nor Yet A Floating Spar To Men That Sink
And Rise And Sink And Rise And Sink Again;
Love Can Not Fill The Thickened Lung With Breath,
Nor Clean The Blood, Nor Set The Fractured Bone;
Yet Many A Man Is Making Friends With Death
Even As I Speak, For Lack Of Love Alone.
It Well May Be That In A Difficult Hour,
Pinned Down By Pain And Moaning For Release,
Or Nagged By Want Past Resolution's Power,
I Might Be Driven To Sell Your Love For Peace,
Or Trade The Memory Of This Night For Food.
It Well May Be. I Do Not Think I Would.

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