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Sara Teasdale

Literary Birthday – 8 August – Sara Teasdale

Sara Teasdale was born on 8 August 1884 and died on 29 January 1933.

Sara Teasdale Quotes

  1. It is my heart that makes my songs, not I.
  2. You will recognise your own path when you come upon it because you will suddenly have all the energy and imagination you will ever need.
  3. I make the most of all that comes and the least of all that goes.
  4. No one worth possessing can be quite possessed.
  5. Though I know he loves me, tonight my heart is sad; his kiss was not so wonderful as all the dreams I had.
  6. It is strange how often a heart must be broken before the years can make it wise.
  7. Call him wise whose actions, words, and steps are all a clear because to a clear why.
  8. Beauty, more than bitterness, makes the heart break.
  9. 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.
  10. I have no riches but my thoughts. Yet these are wealth enough for me.

Sara Teasdale  was an American lyrical poet whose work explored beauty, love, and death through a deeply personal lens. From 1904 to 1907, she was a member of The Potters, a group of young women artists in St. Louis who published the monthly literary and artistic magazine The Potter’s Wheel. Teasdale’s poetry is admired for its classical style, emotional honesty, and technical precision. She wrote graceful lyrics, often in traditional forms such as quatrains and sonnets. Her collection Love Songs won the Pulitzer Prize for Poetry and remains one of her best-known works. Teasdale’s influence on American poetry continues to this day, and she is remembered as one of the most important lyrical poets of the twentieth century.

Source for photograph: Creator: Gerhard Sisters, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons

by Amanda Patterson
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Posted on: 8th August 2013
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