Sara Teasdale: Quotes about beauty

Sara Teasdale was American writer and poet. Explore interesting quotes on beauty.

Sara Teasdale: 78 quotes7 likes

“Oh, beauty, are you not enough?
Why am I crying after love?”

Sara Teasdale Spring Night

"Spring Night"
Rivers to the Sea (1915)

“If I am peaceful, I shall see
Beauty's face continually;
Feeding on her wine and bread
I shall be wholly comforted,
For she can make one day for me
Rich as my lost eternity.”

"The Wind in the Hemlock"
Flame and Shadow (1920)

“My dreams are over, I have ceased to cry
Against the fate that made men love my mouth
And left their spirits all too deaf to hear
The little songs that echoed through my soul.
I have no anger now. The dreams are done;
Yet since the Greeks and Trojans would not see
Aught but my body's fairness, till the end,
In all the islands set in all the seas,
And all the lands that lie beneath the sun,
Till light turn darkness, and till time shall sleep,
Men's lives shall waste with longing after me,
For I shall be the sum of their desire,
The whole of beauty, never seen again.”

"Helen of Troy"
Helen of Troy and Other Poems (1911)

“I have grown weary of the winds of heaven.
I will not be a reed to hold the sound
Of whatsoever breath the gods may blow,
Turning my torment into music for them.
They gave me life; the gift was bountiful,
I lived with the swift singing strength of fire,
Seeking for beauty as a flame for fuel —
Beauty in all things and in every hour.
The gods have given life — I gave them song;
The debt is paid and now I turn to go.”

"Sappho (Rivers to the Sea)"
Rivers to the Sea (1915)

“Oh, is it not enough to be
Here with this beauty over me?
My throat should ache with praise, and I
Should kneel in joy beneath the sky.
Oh, beauty are you not enough?”

Sara Teasdale Spring Night

"Spring Night"
Rivers to the Sea (1915)

“This is the funeral pyre and Troy is dead
That sparkled so the day I saw it first,
And darkened slowly after. I am she
Who loves all beauty — yet I wither it.”

"Helen of Troy"
Helen of Troy and Other Poems (1911)

“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.”

"Barter"
Love Songs (1917)