A little while when I am gone
My life will live in music after me,
As spun foam lifted and borne on
After the wave is lost in the full sea.
A while these nights and days will burn
In song with the bright frailty of foam,
Living in light before they turn
Back to the nothingness that is their home.
—Sara Teasdale
I have no riches but my thoughts. Yet these are wealth enough for me.
—Sara Teasdale
Topics: Thinking, Thoughts, Thought
Oh who can tell the range of joy or set the bounds of beauty?
—Sara Teasdale
Topics: Possibilities, Potential
No one worth possessing can be quite possessed.
—Sara Teasdale
Topics: Lovers, Love
Life is a frail moth flying
Caught in the web of the years that pass.
—Sara Teasdale
Topics: Living
I make the most of all that comes and the least of all that goes.
—Sara Teasdale
Topics: Positive Attitudes, Opportunity, Acceptance, Mindsets, Optimism, Balance
It was a Spring that never came, but we have lived enough to know what we have never had remains. It is the things we have that go.
—Sara Teasdale
Topics: Hope
I shall not let a sorrow die until I find the heart of it, nor let a wordless joy go by until it talks to me a bit.
—Sara Teasdale
Topics: Sorrow
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
Topics: Philosophy, Philosophers
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
Topics: Wisdom, Youth
Wondering Whom to Read Next?
- Mark Van Doren American Poet, Critic
- Sylvia Plath American Poet, Novelist
- Marianne Moore American Poet
- Gwendolyn Brooks American Poet, Educator
- Carolyn Kizer American Poet
- Julia Ward Howe American Poet, Author
- Carol Shields Canadian Author, Academic
- Clarissa Pinkola Estes American Poet
- Annie Dillard American Writer
- Joyce Carol Oates American Novelist
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