Edna St. Vincent Millay on parents who inspire their children to follow their own paths

    Edna St. Vincent Millay wrote the following to her mother:

I was telling somebody yesterday that the reason I am a poet is entirely because you wanted me to be and intended I should be, even from the very first. You brought me up in the tradition of poetry, and everything I did you encouraged. I can not remember once in my life when you were not interested in what I was working on, or even suggested that I should put it aside for something else. Some parents of children that are “different” have so much to reproach themselves with. But not you, Great Spirit. (Quoted from The Life of the Creative Spirit, p. 234.)
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    For a brief biography of Edna St. Vincent Millay, click here.

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[William Helg]

See Cora's poem in which the advice from a mother to her daughters is to "gather herbs".