My candle burns at both ends
It will not last the night;
But ah, my foes, and oh, my friends -
It gives a lovely light.
Edna St. Vincent Millay, "A Few Figs from Thistles", 1920US poet (1892 - 1950)
Read more about Edna's interesting life and tragic death here.
3 comments:
I stayed in the hotel where she was "discovered" in Camden, Maine. Went to the mountaintop where she wrote a famous poem. All by accident.
i'm sure the fally down the stairsy and breaky de necky thing was also an accident.
She was a heroin addict, which is something they neglect to tell one in high school.
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