“To a Young Poet

Time cannot break the bird's wing from the bird.
Bird and wing together
Go down, one feather.

No thing that ever flew,
Not the lark, not you,
Can die as others do.”

—  Edna St. Vincent Millay

Source: Collected Poems

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American poet 1892–1950

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