¶ Millay: Edna St.Vincent
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Millay: Edna St.Vincent:
“Because poets too conceive in very abstract and very real patterns too, we quote an appropriate pattern citation also appropriate to accelerating history paced by science and technology and its extra-corporeal transformations.”
"'This little life
From here to there–
Who lives it safely anywhere?
Not you my insulated friend
What calm composure will defend
You rock, when tides you’ve never seen
Assault the sands of what has been
And from your island’s tallest tree
You watch advance
What is to be.
The tidal wave devours the shore
There are no islands any more."
