Sara Teasdale Quotes

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• All through the deep blue night The fountain sang alone; It sang to the drowsy heart of the satyr carved in stone. The fountain sang…
• Let it be forgotten, as a flower is forgotten, Forgotten as a fire that once was singing gold, Let it be forgotten forever and ever,…
• O beauty, are you not enough; why am I crying after love.
• Life is a frail moth flying Caught in the web of the years that pass.
• No one worth possessing can be quite possessed.
• Into my heart's treasury I slipped a coin That Time cannot take Nor a thief purloin- O better than the minting Of a gold-crowned king…
• With my singing I can make, a refuge for my spirit's sake; a house of shining words, to be my fragile immortality.
• Lyric night of the lingering Indian Summer, Shadowy fields that are scentless but full of singing, Never a bird, but the passionless chant of insects,…
• Oh to be free of myself, With nothing left to remember, To have my heart as bare As a tree in December; Resting, as a…
• It is my heart that makes my songs, not I.
• Call him wise whose actions, words, and steps are all a clear because to a clear why.
• Spend all you have for loveliness.
• Years go, dreams go, and youth goes too, The world's heart breaks beneath its wars,All things are changed, save in the east,The faithful beauty of…
• SONG You bound strong sandals on my feet, You gave me bread and wine, And sent me under sun and stars, For all the world…
• The world is tired, the year is old, The faded leaves are glad to die...
• I shall not let a sorrow die Until I find the heart of it, Nor let a wordless joy go by Until it talks to…
• Spend all you have for loveliness, Buy it and never count the cost; For one white singing hour of peace Count many a year of…
• Now at last I have come to see what life is, Nothing is ever ended, everything only begun, And the brave victories that seem so…
• Take love when love is given, But never think to find it A sure escape from sorrow Or a complete repose.
• Take love when love is given.

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