Sara Teasdale Quotes

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

Stephen kissed me in the spring,Robin in the fall,But Colin only looked at meAnd never kissed at all...

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

I shall have peace, as leafy trees are peaceful When rain bends down the bough; And I shall be more ...

Let me remember you, soon will the winter be on us,Snow-hushed and heartless.

I am not yours, not lost in you,Not lost, although I long to beLost as a candle lit at noon,Lost as ...

Never fear the thing you feel-- Only by love is life made real

Spend all you have for loveliness,Buy it and never count the cost;For one white singing hour of peac...

Oh I must pass nothing byWithout loving it much,The raindrop try with my lips,The grass with my touc...

What do I care, in the dreams and the languor of spring,That my songs do not show me at all?For they...

Down the hill I went, and then,I forgot the ways of men,For night-scents, heady and damp and coolWak...

I almost gave my life long ago for a thingThat has gone to dust now, stinging my eyes—It is strange ...

When I can look life in the eyes, grown calm and very coldly wise, life will have given me the truth...

I would not have a god come in To shield me suddenly from sin, And set my house of life to rights; N...

I went back to the clanging city, I went back where my old loves stayed, But my heart was full of my...

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

It was a night of early spring,The winter-sleep was scarcely broken;Around us shadows and the windLi...

In my heart's most secret place,I pity them as angels do.

This is the spot where I will lie When life has had enough of me, These are the grasses that will bl...

Beauty, more than bitterness, makes the heart break.

Life is but thought.

Wisdom is not acquired save as the result of investigation.

Life has loveliness to sell, all beautiful and splendid things, blue waves whitened on a cliff, soar...

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

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

I saw the sunset-colored sands, The Nile like flowing fire between, Where Rameses stares forth seren...

You will recognize your own path when you come upon it because you will suddenly have all the energy...

I thought of you and how you love this beauty,And walking up the long beach all aloneI heard the wav...

Joy was a flame in me Too steady to destroy. Lithe as a bending reed Loving the storm that sways he...

From my spirit's gray defeat, From my pulse's flagging beat, From my hopes that turned to sand Sifti...

Child, child, love while you can The voice and the eyes and the soul of a man; Never fear though it ...

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

Beauty more than bitterness Makes the heart break.