Tuesday, October 24, 2006

News at Eleven: 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!

That candle supplied a metaphorical flame. The flames on Sanibel on May 2, 1936, were all too real and not lovely. Although she lost the manuscript, [Edna St. Vincent] Millay was able to rewrite "Conversation at Midnight" from memory.

from The News-Press: Poet lost years of work in Sanibel fire

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