Sara Teasdale: Quotes about love

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

Sara Teasdale: 78 quotes7 likes

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

"Spring Night"
Rivers to the Sea (1915)

“I lift my heart as spring lifts up
A yellow daisy to the rain;
My heart will be a lovely cup
Altho' it holds but pain.

For I shall learn from flower and leaf
That color every drop they hold,
To change the lifeless wine of grief
To living gold.”

Sara Teasdale Rivers to the Sea

"Alchemy"
Rivers to the Sea (1915)

“But oh, to him I loved
Who loved me not at all,
I owe the little open gate
That led thru heaven's wall.”

Sara Teasdale

"Debt"
Rivers to the Sea (1915)

“With the man I love who loves me not
I walked in the street-lamps' flare —
But oh, the girls who can ask for love
In the lights of Union Square.”

Sara Teasdale

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

“There is no sign of leaf or bud,
A hush is over everything —
Silent as women wait for love,
The world is waiting for the spring.”

Sara Teasdale

"Central Park at Dusk"
Helen of Troy and Other Poems (1911)

“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.”

Sara Teasdale

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

“I would live in your love as the sea-grasses live in the sea,
Borne up by each wave as it passes, drawn down by each wave that recedes.”

Sara Teasdale

"I Would Live in Your Love"
Helen of Troy and Other Poems (1911)

“Oh Earth, you gave me all I have,
I love you, I love you, — oh what have I
That I can give you in return —
Except my body after I die?”

Sara Teasdale

"June Night"
Flame and Shadow (1920)

“Perhaps when all the world is bare
And cruel winter holds the land,
The Love that finds no place to hide
Will run and catch my hand. I shall not care to have him then,
I shall be bitter and a-cold —
It grows too late for frolicking
When all the world is old.Then little hiding Love, come forth,
Come forth before the autumn goes,
And let us seek thro' ruined paths
The garden's last red rose.”

Sara Teasdale

"Love in Autumn"
Helen of Troy and Other Poems (1911)

“Make songs for Death as you would sing to Love —
But you will not assuage him. He alone
Of all the gods will take no gifts from men.”

Sara Teasdale

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

“We weep before the Blessed Mother's shrine,
To think upon her sorrows, but her joys
What nun could ever know a tithing of?
The precious hours she watched above His sleep
Were worth the fearful anguish of the end.
Yea, lack of love is bitterest of all.”

Sara Teasdale

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

“Ah, Aphrodite, if I sing no more
To thee, God's daughter, powerful as God,
It is that thou hast made my life too sweet
To hold the added sweetness of a song.
There is a quiet at the heart of love,
And I have pierced the pain and come to peace.”

Sara Teasdale

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

“How should they know that Sappho lived and died
Faithful to love, not faithful to the lover,
Never transfused and lost in what she loved,
Never so wholly loving nor at peace.”

Sara Teasdale

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

“If I can find out God, then I shall find Him,
If none can find Him, then I shall sleep soundly,
Knowing how well on earth your love sufficed me,
A lamp in darkness.”

Sara Teasdale

"The Lamp"
Love Songs (1917)

“I should be glad of loneliness
And hours that go on broken wings,
A thirsty body, a tired heart
And the unchanging ache of things,
If I could make a single song
As lovely and as full of light,
As hushed and brief as a falling star
On a winter night.”

Sara Teasdale

"Compensation"
Flame and Shadow (1920)

“For tho' I know he loves me,
To-night my heart is sad;
His kiss was not so wonderful
As all the dreams I had.”

Sara Teasdale The Kiss

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

“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.”

Sara Teasdale

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

“All this grows bitter that was once so sweet,
And many mouths must drain the dregs of it.
But none will pity me, nor pity him
Whom Love so lashed, and with such cruel thongs.”

Sara Teasdale

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

“And as I played, a child came thro' the gate,
A boy who looked at me without a word,
As tho' he saw stretch far behind my head
Long lines of radiant angels, row on row.
That day we spoke a little, timidly,
And after that I never heard the voice
That sang so many songs for love of me.”

Sara Teasdale

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

“O lovely chance, what can I do
To give my gratefulness to you?
You rise between myself and me
With a wise persistency;
I would have broken body and soul,
But by your grace, still I am whole.”

Sara Teasdale

"Lovely Chance"
Flame and Shadow (1920)