Sara Teasdale Quotes

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• I make the most of all that comes and the least of all that goes.

  Sara Teasdale

  Heartbroken, Gratitude, Humor

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• Not one would mind, neither bird nor tree
  If mankind perished utterly; And Spring herself, when she woke at dawn,
  Would scarcely know that we were gone.

  Sara Teasdale

  Nature, Spring, Animal

  Sara Teasdale (1920). “Flame and Shadow”, p.90, Рипол Классик

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• It is strange how often a heart must be broken before the years can make it wise.

  Sara Teasdale

  Broken Heart, Wise, Wisdom

  Sara Teasdale (1920). “Flame and Shadow”, p.120, Рипол Классик

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• 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 - my youth.

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  Life, Wise, Wisdom

  Sara Teasdale (1917). “Love Songs”

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• look for a lovely thing and you will find it, it is not far, it never will be far

  Sara Teasdale

  Lovely, Lovely Things, Looks

  Sara Teasdale (1937). “Collected poems”

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• Only by love is life made real.

  Sara Teasdale

  Real, Love Is, Made

  Sara Teasdale (1917). “Love Songs”

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• What we have never had, remains; It is the things we have that go.

  Sara Teasdale

  Unfulfillment, Remains

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

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• I shall gather myself into my self again,
  I shall take my scattered selves and make them one.

  Sara Teasdale

  Self

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

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• No one worth possessing can be quite possessed.

  Sara Teasdale

  Friendship, Women, Memorable

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

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• 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 looking up, Holding wonder like a cup. Life has loveliness to sell, Music like a curve of gold, Scent of pine trees in the rain, Eyes that love you, arms that hold, And for your spirit's still delight, Holy thoughts that star the night. 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.

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  Life, Beautiful, Stars

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

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• 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 snowflake in the sea. You love me, and I find you still a spirit beautiful and bright, yet I am I, who long to be lost as a light is lost in light.

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  Beautiful, Light, Sea

  Sara Teasdale (1937). “Collected poems”

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• Time is a kind friend, he will make us old.

  Sara Teasdale

  Time, Kind, Old Time

  "Let It Be Forgotten" l. 4 (1919)

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• My soul is a broken field, plowed by pain.

  Sara Teasdale

  Pain, Broken, Soul

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• Wisdom is not acquired save as the result of investigation.

  Sara Teasdale

  Wisdom, Results, Investigation

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• 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 night, And wild plum trees in tremulous white; Robins will wear their feathery fire, Whistling their whims on a low fence-wire; And not one will know of the war, not one Will care at last when it is done. Not one would mind, neither bird nor tree, If mankind perished utterly; And Spring herself when she woke at dawn Would scarcely know that we were gone.

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  Spring, War, Rain

  Sara Teasdale (1937). “Collected poems”

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• I found more joy in sorrow than you could find in joy.

  Sara Teasdale

  Sad, Joy, Sorrow

  Sappho, Emily Dickinson, Edna St. Vincent Millay, Amy Lowell, Sara Teasdale (2018). “Wild Nights: Heart Wisdom from Five Women Poets”, p.94, Courier Dover Publications

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• My soul is a dark ploughed field In the cold rain; My soul is a broken field Ploughed by pain.

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  Pain, Rain, Dark

  Sara Teasdale (1920). “Flame and Shadow”, p.47, Рипол Классик

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• The poet should try to give his poem the quiet swiftness of flame, so that the reader will feel and not think while he is reading. But the thinking will come afterwards.

  Sara Teasdale

  Reading, Thinking, Flames

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• My theory is that poems are written because of a state of emotional irritation. It may be present for some time before the poet is conscious of what is tormenting him. The emotional irritation springs, probably, from subconscious combinations of partly forgotten thoughts and feelings. Coming together, like electrical currents in a thunder storm, they produce a poem. ... the poem is written to free the poet from an emotional burden.

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  Spring, Emotional, Irritation

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

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• One by one, like leaves from a tree, / All my faiths have forsaken me.

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  Faith, Tree, Forsaken

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

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• Beauty, more than bitterness, makes the heart break.

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  Beauty, Heart, Bad Relationship

  Sara Teasdale (1937). “Collected poems”

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• Can I ever know you / Or you know me?

  Sara Teasdale

  Know Me, Knows

  Sara Teasdale (1920). “Flame and Shadow”, p.38, Рипол Классик

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• My heart is a garden tired with autumn.

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  Tired, Heart, Autumn

  Sara Teasdale (1920). “Flame and Shadow”, p.69, Рипол Классик

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• 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 in jest, Robin’s lost in play, But the kiss in Colin’s eyes Haunts me night and day.

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  Spring, Fall, Eye

  Sara Teasdale, “The Look”

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• The ache of empty arms was an old tale to you.

  Sara Teasdale

  Arms, Empty, Ache

  Sara Teasdale (1937). “Collected poems”

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