Love destroyed.

It is an interesting question - something that is always sitting in the background. If it fails, is it love? Yes! Oh yes. Ever heard of "Casablanca"?

After all my erstwhile dear,
My no longer cherished,
Need we say it was not love,
Just because it perished?

- EDNA ST. VINCENT MILLAY

Edna Vincent Millay was the first female recepient of the Pulitzer prize for poetry (In 1923 for The Harp-Weaver). She was a sonneteer and a playwrite, known for her numerous affairs with both men and women. Her best works were Renascence and The Ballad of the Harp-Weaver. Infact, Thomas Hardy said that her poems were one of the two greatest attractions in America. She received widespread critical attention which made her a popular poet. Ironically, it was this popularity that resulted in critics doubting her as a serious poet. Also, toward her later years (1950s) as she turned to propoganda work, interest in her work declined. However, interest was revived again in the 1970s.

Think you've never heard of her? Her pen name was Nancy Boyd.