On this date in 1892, Edna St. Vincent Millay, the first woman to receive the Pulitzer Prize for Poetry, was born. "First Fig" goes thusly: "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!" Today our hot, deep, burning love goes out to the amazing and the inspiring: Alaska Airlines, Independent Spirit Awards, Kenneth Cole, Kidrobot and Uwishunu.com. Allow us to wax lyrical about you, too: Click here to make it happen.
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