Nellie Millay

GPTKB entity

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gptkbp:instance_of gptkb:poet
gptkbp:associated_act gptkb:The_Poetry_Society_of_America
gptkb:The_Provincetown_Players
gptkbp:awards gptkb:Pulitzer_Prize_for_Poetry
Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Letters
gptkbp:birth_place gptkb:Rockland,_Maine
gptkbp:born February 22, 1892
gptkbp:contains_track gptkb:Villanelle
gptkb:poet
Free verse
gptkbp:death_place gptkb:Austerlitz,_New_York
gptkbp:died October 19, 1950
gptkbp:education gptkb:Vassar_College
gptkbp:famous_quote " I am not a poet, I am a poetess."
" 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!"
" A poet is, before anything else, a person who is passionately in love with language."
" The poet is the one who is able to see the world as it is, and to express it in words."
" Love is not all: It is not meat nor drink."
" Poetry should be a little bit of a surprise."
" The best thing in the world is to be a poet."
" I shall die, but that is all that I shall do for death."
" To have a great poet, there must be a great audience."
" I am a woman, and I am a poet, and I am proud of both."
gptkbp:full_name gptkb:Edna_St._Vincent_Millay
gptkbp:genre Lyric poetry
https://www.w3.org/2000/01/rdf-schema#label Nellie Millay
gptkbp:influenced gptkb:Sylvia_Plath
gptkbp:influenced_by gptkb:Walt_Whitman
gptkbp:inspired_by gptkb:Death
gptkb:Love
gptkb:Nature
gptkbp:known_for Feminist themes
gptkbp:nationality gptkb:Native_American_tribe
gptkbp:notable_work Renascence
gptkbp:occupation gptkb:singer
gptkb:Author
gptkb:playwright
gptkbp:spouse gptkb:Eugene_Boissevain
gptkbp:bfsParent gptkb:Marlene_Millay
gptkbp:bfsLayer 6