by Edna St. Vincent Millay (1892 - 1950)
To Arthur Davison Ficke Matches base text
Language: English
It’s not true that life is one damn thing after another — it’s one damn thing over & over — there’s the rub — first you get sick — then you get sicker — then you get not quite so sick — then you get hardly sick at all — then you get a little sicker — then you get a lot sicker — then you get not quite so sick — oh, hell
A letter to Arthur Davison Ficke
(October 24, 1930). Letter No. 171.
Researcher for this text: Emily Ezust [Administrator]
Composition:
- Set to music by Juliana Hall (b. 1958), "To Arthur Davison Ficke", 1993, first performed 1995 [ mezzo-soprano and piano ], from Letters from Edna -- 8 songs for Mezzo and Piano, no. 7
Text Authorship:
- by Edna St. Vincent Millay (1892 - 1950), no title, written 1930
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Researcher for this text: Emily Ezust [Administrator]
This text was added to the website: 2014-08-22
Line count: 5
Word count: 74