PULITZER PRIZE FOR POETRY 1918
BORN 1884 St. Louis, Missouri DIED 1933 New York City suicide sleeping pills
LIFE HAS LOVELINESS
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.
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 spirits still delight, Holy thoughts that star the night.
SPEND all you have for loveliness, Buy it and never count the cost; For one last shining hour of peace Count many a year of strife well lost, And for a breath of ecstasy Give all you have been, or could be.
SARA TEASDALE———–QUOTES
LIFE IS BUT THOUGHT.
I make the most off all that comes and the least of all that goes.
It is strange how often a heart must be broken before the years can make it wise.
I have no riches besdes my thoughts. Yet these are wealth enough for me.
WISDOM IS NOT ACQUIRED SAVE AS A RESULT OF INVESTIGATION.
I found more joy in sorrow than you could find in joy.
Oh who can tell the range of joy or set the bounds of beauty.
A hush over everything, Silent as women wait for love; the world is waiting for the spring.
Of my own spirit let me be in sole though feeble mastery
No one worth possessing can quite be possessed.