Inspirational Quotations

Inspirational Quotes by Sara Teasdale (American Poet)

Sara Teasdale (1884–1933,) née Trevor, later Sara Teasdale Filsinger, was an American poet. Her short, personal lyrics were noted for their classical simplicity and gentle intensity.

Born in St. Louis, Missouri, Teasdale was educated at the Mary Institute and Hosmer Hall, both in St. Louis. In 1918, she was the first person to receive a Columbia University Poetry Society prize (the forerunner of the Pulitzer Prize for poetry) for her collection Love Songs (1917.) She initially earned a reputation as a writer of ‘feminine’ love poetry. However, much of her poetry is founded on her sheltered early life and unhappy marriage.

Teasdale’s poetry is collected in Helen of Troy and Other Poetry (1911,) River to the Sea (1915,) Flame and Shadow (1920,) Dark of the Moon (1926,) Stars To-night (1930,) and Strange Victory (1933.) Her works convey the conflicting needs for independence and freedom, love, and security.

Teasdale took her own life with an overdose of sleep-inducing barbiturates. Her Collected Poems appeared in 1937.

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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

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