Best Sara Teasdale Quotes
- Life has loveliness to sell, / Music like a curve of gold, / Scent of pine trees in the rain, / Eyes that love you,… Arms
- I make the most of all that comes and the least of all that goes. All
- When I can look life in the eyes, grown calm and very coldly wise, life will have given me the truth, and taken in exchange… Age
- It is strange how often a heart must be broken before the years can make it wise. Broken
- Oh who can tell the range of joy or set the bounds of beauty? Beauty
- Life has loveliness to sell, all beautiful and splendid things, blue waves whitened on a cliff, soaring fire that sways and sings, and children's faces… All
- Though I know he loves me, tonight my heart is sad; his kiss was not so wonderful as all the dreams I had. All
- Of my own spirit let me be in sole though feeble mastery. Feeble
- Wisdom is not acquired save as the result of investigation. Acquired
- I shall have peace, as leafy trees are peaceful when rain bends down the bough; And I shall be more silent and cold hearted than… Bends
- There will come soft rains and the smell of the ground, And swallows circling with their shimmering sound; And frogs in the pool singing at… Bird
- Stephen kissed me in the spring, Robin in the fall, But Colin only looked at me And never kissed at all. Stephen’s kiss was lost… All
- Life has loveliness to sell, All beautiful and splendid things, Blue waves whitened on a cliff, Soaring fire that sways and sings, And children's faces… All
- I am not yours, nor lost in you, not lost, although I long to be. Lost as a candle lit at noon, lost as a… Beautiful
- The ache of empty arms was an old tale to you. Ache
- Down the hill I went, and then, I forgot the ways of men, For night-scents, heady and damp and cool Wakened ecstasy Cool
- For I shall learn from flower and leaf, That color every drop they hold, To change the lifeless wine of grief To living gold. Change
- I saw a star slide down the sky Blinding the north as it went by Too buring and too quick to hold Too lovely to… Blinding
- When I am dead, and over me bright April Shakes out her rain drenched hair, Tho you should lean above me broken hearted, I shall… April
- If I should see your eyes again, I know how far their look would go -- Back to a morning in the park With sapphire… Amethyst
- From my spirit's gray defeat, From my pulse's flagging beat, From my hopes that turned to sand Sifting through my close-clenched hand, From my own… Beat
- As dew leaves the cobweb lightly Threaded with stars, Scattering jewels on the fence And the pasture bars; As dawn leaves the dry grass bright… Alight
- It is enough for me by day To walk the same bright earth with him; Enough that over us by night The same great roof… Bind
- Until I lose my soul and lie Blind to the beauty of the earth, Deaf though shouting wind goes by, Dumb in a storm of… All
- This is the spot where I will lie When life has had enough of me, These are the grasses that will blow Above me like… Blow