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."