Sara Teasdale Quotes
Top 54 wise famous quotes and sayings by Sara Teasdale
Sara Teasdale Famous Quotes & Sayings
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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.
Oh Earth, you gave me all I have, I love you, I love you, - oh what have IThat I can give you in return - Except my body after I die?
I am the pool of gold When sunset burns and dies
You are my deepening skies; Give me your stars to hold
You are my deepening skies; Give me your stars to hold
I shall not let a sorrow die Until I find the heart of it, Nor let a wordless joy go by Until it talks to me a bit.
Joy was a flame in me Too steady to destroy. Lithe as a bending reed, Loving the storm that sways her
Take love when love is given, But never think to find it A sure escape from sorrow Or a complete repose.
Though I know he loves me, tonight my heart is sad; his kiss was not so wonderful as all the dreams I had.
But you I never understood, Your spirit's secret hides like goldSunk in a Spanish galleon Ages ago in waters cold.
There in the windy flood of morning Longing lifted its weight from me, Lost as a sob in the midst of cheering, Swept as a sea-bird out to sea.
The leaves fall patiently
Nothing remembers or grieves
The river takes to the sea
The yellow drift of leaves.
Nothing remembers or grieves
The river takes to the sea
The yellow drift of leaves.
For I shall learn from flower and leaf,
That color every drop they hold,
To change the lifeless wine of grief
To living gold.
That color every drop they hold,
To change the lifeless wine of grief
To living gold.
Down the hill I went, and then,
I forgot the ways of men,
For night-scents, heady and damp and cool
Wakened ecstasy
I forgot the ways of men,
For night-scents, heady and damp and cool
Wakened ecstasy
But oh, to him I loved Who loved me not at all,I owe the little open gate That led thru heaven's wall.
Autumn Dusk
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.
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.
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.
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
Lost as the swallow's flight,
Seeking for you and never, never
Stilled by the stars at night