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Edna St. Vincent Millay on Valentine's Day

1892–1950 United States

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Yet many a man is making friends with death
Even as I speak, for lack of love alone.

Sonnet XXX from Fatal Interview (1931)

After all, my earstwhile dear,
My no longer cherished,
Need we say it was not love,
Now that love is perished?

Love is not all: it is not meat nor drink
Nor slumber nor a roof against the rain … Yet many a man is making friends with death
Even as I speak, for lack of love alone.

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.

Sonnet XXX from Fatal Interview (1931)

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Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: Edna St. Vincent Millay (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.