"From my spirit's gray defeat, From my pulse's……" — Sara Teasdale
"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 fault's slavery, If I can sing, I still am free. For with my singing I can make A refuge for my spirit's sake, A house of shining words, to be My fragile immortality."
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Sara Teasdale
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68 Quotes by Sara Teasdale
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All through the deep blue night The fountain sang alone; It sang to the drowsy heart of the satyr carved…
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Let it be forgotten, as a flower is forgotten, Forgotten as a fire that once was singing gold, Let it…
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O beauty, are you not enough; why am I crying after love.
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Life is a frail moth flying Caught in the web of the years that pass.
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No one worth possessing can be quite possessed.
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Into my heart's treasury I slipped a coin That Time cannot take Nor a thief purloin- O better than the…
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With my singing I can make, a refuge for my spirit's sake; a house of shining words, to be my…
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Lyric night of the lingering Indian Summer, Shadowy fields that are scentless but full of singing, Never a bird, but…
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Oh to be free of myself, With nothing left to remember, To have my heart as bare As a tree…
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It is my heart that makes my songs, not I.
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Call him wise whose actions, words, and steps are all a clear because to a clear why.
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Spend all you have for loveliness.
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