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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

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Sara Teasdale
Age: 48 †
Born: 1884
Born: August 8
Died: 1933
Died: January 29
Poet
Writer
St. Louis
Missouri
Sara Teasdale Filsinger
Sara Trevor Teasdale
Truth
Youth
Look
Wise
Looks
Wisdom
Life
Eyes
Coldly
Taken
Exchange
Age
Grown
Eye
Calm
Given
Honesty

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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.
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From my spirit's gray defeat, From my pulse's flagging beat, From my hopes that turned to sand Sifting through my close-clenched hand, From my own fault's slavery, If I can sing, I still am free. For with my singing I can make A refuge for my spirit's sake, A house of shining words, to be My fragile immortality.
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Life has loveliness to sell, / Music like a curve of gold, / Scent of pine trees in the rain, / Eyes that love you, arms that hold, / And for your spirit's still delight, / Holy thoughts that star the night.
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Make songs for Death as you would sing to Love -But you will not assuage him. He aloneOf all the gods will take no gifts from men.
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There is a quiet at the heart of love, And I have pierced the pain and come to peace.
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I make the most of all that comes and the least of all that goes.
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But oh, to him I loved Who loved me not at all,I owe the little open gate That led thru heaven's wall.
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Though I know he loves me, tonight my heart is sad his kiss was not so wonderful as all the dreams I had.
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There's nothing half so real in life as the things you've done... inexorably, unalterably done.
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I shall gather myself into my self again, I shall take my scattered selves and make them one.
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It is strange how often a heart must be broken before the years can make it wise.
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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.
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But what do I care, for love will be over so soon, Let my heart have its say and my mind stand idly by, For my mind is proud and strong enough to be silent, It is my heart that makes my songs, not I.
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Not one would mind, neither bird nor tree If mankind perished utterly And Spring herself, when she woke at dawn, Would scarcely know that we were gone.
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I try to catch at many a tuneLike petals of light fallen from the moon,Broken and bright on a dark lagoon,But they float away - for who can holdYouth, or perfume or the moon's gold?
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One by one, like leaves from a tree, / All my faiths have forsaken me.
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Life is a frail moth flying Caught in the web of the years that pass.
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What we have never had, remains It is the things we have that go.
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The spring is fresh and fearless And every leaf is new, The world is brimmed with moonlight, The lilac brimmed with dew. Here in the moving shadows I catch my breath and sing - My heart is fresh and fearless And over-brimmed with spring.
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