Sara Teasdale Quotes

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Sara Teasdale

Profession : Author

Birth : August 8, 1884

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.

Sara Teasdale

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

Sara Teasdale

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.

Sara Teasdale

Wisdom is not acquired save as the result of investigation.

Sara Teasdale

Though I know he loves me, tonight my heart is sad; his kiss was not so wonderful as all the dreams I had.

Sara Teasdale

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

Sara Teasdale

Life is but thought.

Sara Teasdale

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

Sara Teasdale

No one worth possessing can be quite possessed.

Sara Teasdale

Call him wise whose actions, words, and steps are all a clear because to a clear why.

Sara Teasdale

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

Sara Teasdale

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

Sara Teasdale

Oh who can tell the range of joy or set the bounds of beauty?

Sara Teasdale

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

Sara Teasdale