Quotes from Sara Teasdale

Beauty, more than bitterness Makes the heart break.

Joy was a flame in me Too steady to destroy. Lithe as a bending reed, Loving the storm that sways her - I found more joy in sorrow Than you could find in joy.

No one worth possessing can be quite possessed.

Spend all you have for loveliness.

O lovely chance, what can I doTo give my gratefulness to you?You rise between myself and meWith a wise persistency;I would have broken body and soul,But by your grace, still I am whole.

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

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.

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

Life is but thought.

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

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

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