Sara Teasdale Quotes

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

No one worth possessing can be quite possessed.

- Sara Teasdale

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

- Sara Teasdale

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

- Sara Teasdale

Wisdom is not acquired save as the result of investigation.

- Sara Teasdale

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

- Sara Teasdale

Beauty, more than bitterness, makes the heart break.

- Sara Teasdale

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

- Sara Teasdale

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

- 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

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

I have no riches but my thoughts. Yet these are wealth enough for me.

- Sara Teasdale

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

- Sara Teasdale

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

- 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