"No one worth possessing Can be quite possessed;……" — Sara Teasdale
"No one worth possessing Can be quite possessed; Lay that on your heart, My young angry dear; This truth, this hard and precious stone, Lay it on your hot cheek, Let it hide your tear. Hold it like a crystal When you are alone And gaze in the depths of the icy stone. Long, look long and you will be blessed: No one worth possessing Can be quite possessed."
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Sara Teasdale
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68 Quotes by Sara Teasdale
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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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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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