Sara Teasdale Quotes

Life is but thought.

My soul is a broken field, plowed by pain.

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

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

Into my heart’s treasury I slipped a coin That Time cannot take Nor a thief purloin- O better than the minting Of a gold-crowned king Is the safe-kept memory Of a lovely thing.

Only by love is life made real.

Wisdom is not acquired save as the result of investigation.

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

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

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

No one worth possessing can be quite possessed.

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.

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

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

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.

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

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

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

Life is a frail moth flying Caught in the web of the years that pass.