192 Quotes by Sara Teasdale

I shall have peace, as leafy trees are peaceful when rain bends down the bough; And I shall be more silent and cold hearted than you are now.

My soul is a dark ploughed field In the cold rain; My soul is a broken field Ploughed by pain.

I could not be so sure of Spring / Save that it sings in me.

It is enough for me by day To walk the same bright earth with him; Enough that over us by night The same great roof of stars is dim. I do not hope to bind the wind Or set a fetter on the sea – It is enough to feel his love Blow by like music over me.

But you I never understood, Your spirit’s secret hides like goldSunk in a Spanish galleon Ages ago in waters cold.

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.

Faults They came to tell your faults to me, They named them over one by one; I laughed aloud when they were done, I knew them all so well before, – Oh, they were blind, too blind to see Your faults had made me love you more.

Love said, “Wake still and think of me,” Sleep, “Close your eyes till break of day,” But Dreams came by and smilingly Gave both to Love and Sleep their way.

Life is but thought.