Sara Teasdale Quotes - Page 3

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• The window-lights, myriads and myriads,Bloom from the walls like climbing flowers.

  Sara Teasdale

  Wall, Flower, Light

  Sara Teasdale (1920). “Flame and Shadow”, p.115, Рипол Классик

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• For I shall learn from flower and leaf, That color every drop they hold, To change the lifeless wine of grief To living gold.

  Sara Teasdale

  Grief, Flower, Wine

  Sara Teasdale, William Drake (1984). “Mirror of the Heart: Poems of Sara Teasdale”, MacMillan Publishing Company

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• It will not hurt me when I am old, A running tide where moonlight burned Will not sting me like silver snakes;The years will make me sad and cold, It is the happy heart that breaks.

  Sara Teasdale

  Running, Hurt, Heart

  Sara Teasdale, William Drake (1984). “Mirror of the Heart: Poems of Sara Teasdale”, MacMillan Publishing Company

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• The spring is fresh and fearless
  And every leaf is new,
  The world is brimmed with moonlight,
  The lilac brimmed with dew.
  
  Here in the moving shadows
  I catch my breath and sing -
  My heart is fresh and fearless
  And over-brimmed with spring.

  Sara Teasdale

  Spring, Moving, Heart

  Sara Teasdale (1915). “Rivers to the Sea”

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• There's nothing half so real in life as the things you've done... inexorably, unalterably done.

  Sara Teasdale

  Real, Done, Half

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• I thought of you and how you love this beauty, And walking up the long beach all alone I heard the waves breaking in measured thunder As you and I once heard their monotone. Around me were the echoing dunes, beyond me The cold and sparkling silver of the sea -- We two will pass through death and ages lengthen Before you hear that sound again with me.

  Sara Teasdale

  Beach, Missing Someone, Sea

  Sara Teasdale (1920). “Flame and Shadow”, p.105, Рипол Классик

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• I saw above a sea of hills A solitary planet shine, And there was no one, near or far, to keep the world from being mine.

  Sara Teasdale

  Sea, Shining, World

  Sara Teasdale, William Drake (1984). “Mirror of the Heart: Poems of Sara Teasdale”, MacMillan Publishing Company

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• Spend all you have for loveliness.

  Sara Teasdale

  Beauty, Loveliness

  Sara Teasdale (1937). “Collected poems”

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• But you I never understood, Your spirit's secret hides like goldSunk in a Spanish galleon Ages ago in waters cold.

  Sara Teasdale

  Water, Secret, Age

  Sara Teasdale (1920). “Flame and Shadow”, p.56, Рипол Классик

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• Take love when love is given.

  Sara Teasdale

  Love, Love Is, Given

  Sara Teasdale (1937). “Collected poems”

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• I try to catch at many a tuneLike petals of light fallen from the moon,Broken and bright on a dark lagoon,But they float away - for who can holdYouth, or perfume or the moon's gold?

  Sara Teasdale

  Dark, Moon, Light

  Sara Teasdale, William Drake (1984). “Mirror of the Heart: Poems of Sara Teasdale”, MacMillan Publishing Company

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• 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 strife well lost, And for a breath of ecstasy Give all you have been, or could be.

  Sara Teasdale

  Beauty, Years, White

  Sara Teasdale (1937). “Collected poems”

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• A hush is over everything, Silent as women wait for love; The world is waiting for the spring.

  Sara Teasdale

  Spring, Waiting, World

  Sara Teasdale (1937). “Collected poems”

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• 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 of stars is dim. I do not hope to bind the wind Or set a fetter on the sea -- It is enough to feel his love Blow by like music over me.

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  Stars, Blow, Night

  Sara Teasdale (1917). “Love Songs”

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• The grass is waking in the ground, / Soon it will rise and blow in waves - / How can it have the heart to sway / Over the graves, / New graves?

  Sara Teasdale

  Grief, Heart, Blow

  Sara Teasdale (1915). “Rivers to the Sea”

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• 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.

  Sara Teasdale

  Blessed, Heart, Precious Stones

  Sara Teasdale (1933). “Strange victory: by Sara Teasdale”

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• Of my own spirit let me be in sole though feeble mastery.

  Sara Teasdale

  Mastery, Spirit, Sole

  Sara Teasdale (1937). “Collected poems”

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• I stood beside a hill
  Smooth with new-laid snow,
  A single star looked out
  From the cold evening glow.
  There was not other creature
  That saw what I could see,
  I stood and watched the evening star
  As long as it watched me.

  Sara Teasdale

  Stars, Long, Snow

  Sara Teasdale (1937). “Collected poems”

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• Make songs for Death as you would sing to Love -But you will not assuage him. He aloneOf all the gods will take no gifts from men.

  Sara Teasdale

  Song, Men, Gods Will

  Sara Teasdale, “Erinna”

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• Love in my heart is a cry forever Lost as the swallow's flight, Seeking for you and never, never Stilled by the stars at night

  Sara Teasdale

  Stars, Heart, Night

  Sara Teasdale (1937). “Collected poems”

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• Love said, "Wake still and think of me," Sleep, "Close your eyes till break of day," But Dreams came by and smilingly Gave both to Love and Sleep their way.

  Sara Teasdale

  Dream, Sleep, Eye

  Sara Teasdale (1911). “Helen of Troy, and Other Poems”

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• As the waves of perfume, heliotrope, rose,
  Float in the garden when no wind blows,
  Come to us, go from us, whence no one knows;
  So the old tunes float in my mind,
  And go from me leaving no trace behind,
  Like fragrance borne on the hush of the wind.

  Sara Teasdale

  Music, Blow, Garden

  Sara Teasdale (1920). “Flame and Shadow”, p.18, Рипол Классик

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• The world is tired, the year is old, The faded leaves are glad to die.

  Sara Teasdale

  Tired, Autumn, Years

  Sara Teasdale (1937). “Collected poems”

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• If I am peaceful, I shall see
  Beauty's face continually;
  Feeding on her wine and bread
  I shall be wholly comforted,
  For she can make one day for me
  Rich as my lost eternity.

  Sara Teasdale

  Wine, Peaceful, One Day

  "The Wind in the Hemlock". "Flame and Shadow". Book by Sara Teasdale, 1920.

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• And for a breath of ecstasy / Give all you have been, or could be.

  Sara Teasdale

  Gratitude, Giving, Ecstasy

  Sara Teasdale, William Drake (1984). “Mirror of the Heart: Poems of Sara Teasdale”, MacMillan Publishing Company

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