Sara Teasdale Quotes


"Beauty, more than bitterness, makes the heart break."
- Sara Teasdale
(Related: Beauty, Heart, Bitterness)

"Call him wise whose actions, words, and steps are all a clear because to a clear why."
- Sara Teasdale
(Related: Actions, Words)

"I found more joy in sorrow than you could find in joy."
- Sara Teasdale
(Related: Joy, Sorrow)

"I have no riches but my thoughts. Yet these are wealth enough for me."
- Sara Teasdale
(Related: Thoughts, Wealth)

"I make the most of all that comes and the least of all that goes."
- Sara Teasdale
"I shall make the most of all that comes: And the least of all that goes."
- Sara Teasdale
"A hush is over everything, Silent as women wait for love; The world is waiting for the spring."
- Sara Teasdale
(Related: Women, Love, Spring, Waiting, World)

"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
(Related: Life, Children, Faces, Fire, Wonder)

"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
(Related: Dreams, Kiss, Heart)

"No one worth possessing can be quite possessed."
- Sara Teasdale
(Related: Worth)

"Of my own spirit let me be in sole though feeble mastery."
- Sara Teasdale
(Related: Spirit)

"Oh who can tell the range of joy or set the bounds of beauty?"
- Sara Teasdale
(Related: Beauty, Joy)

"Then, like an old-time orator impressively he rose; I make the most of all that comes and the least of all that goes."
- Sara Teasdale
(Related: Old)

"There's nothing half so real in life as the things you've done... inexorably, unalterably done."
- Sara Teasdale
(Related: Life, Nothing)

"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
(Related: Life, Truth, Eyes, Will, Youth)

"It is strange how often a heart must be broken before the years can make it wise."
- Sara Teasdale
(Related: Heart, Years)

"Wisdom is not acquired save as the result of investigation."
- Sara Teasdale
(Related: Wisdom, Investigation, Result)