I. Frost's Selected Quotations

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BEAUTY more than bitterness
Makes the heart break.
Teasdale Sara, VIGNETTES OVERSEAS, Rivers to the Sea 1915

Forever
Seek for BEAUTY, she only
Fights with and against DEATH!
Teasdale Sara, THE VOICE, Flame and Shadow 1920

Look for a lovely thing and you will find it,
It is not far -
It never will be far.
Teasdale Sara, NIGHT, Stars Tonight 1930

Oh who can tell the range of JOY
Or set the bounds of BEAUTY?
Teasdale Sara, A WINTER BLUE JOY, Rivers to the Sea 1915

I make the most of all that comes,
And the least of all that goes.
Teasdale Sara, THE PHILOSOPHER

Spend all you have for LOVELINESS.
Buy it and never count the cost;
For one white singing 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.
Teasdale Sara, BARTER, Love Songs 1917

It is strange how often a heart must be broken
Before the years can make it WISE.
Teasdale Sara, DUST, Flame and Shadow 1920

Though I know he loves me,
Tonight my heart is sad;
His KISS was not so wonderful
As all the DREAMS I had.
Teasdale Sara, THE KISS, Helen of troy 1911

I make the most of all that comes,
And the least of all that goes.
Teasdale Sara, THE PHILOSOPHER

Spend all you have for LOVELINESS.
Buy it and never count the cost;
For one white singing 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.
Teasdale Sara, BARTER, Love Songs 1917

It is strange how often a heart must be broken
Before the years can make it WISE.
Teasdale Sara, DUST, Flame and Shadow 1920

Though I know he loves me,
Tonight my heart is sad;
His KISS was not so wonderful
As all the DREAMS I had.
Teasdale Sara, THE KISS, Helen of troy 1911

Take e LOVE when LOVE is given,
But never think to find it
A sure escape from sorrow
Or a complete repose.
Teasdale Sara, DAY'S ENDING, Dark of the Moon 1926

LOVE, old LOVE,
How can I be true?
Shall I be faithless to myself
Or to you?
Teasdale Sara, NEW LOVE AND OLD, Rivers to the Sea 1915

Of better than the minting
Of a gold-crowned king
Is the safe-kept MEMORY
Of a lovely thing.
Teasdale Sara, THE COIN, Flame and Shadow 1920

MOON. worn thin to the width of a quill,
In the dawn clouds flying,
How good to go, light into light, and still
Giving light, dying.
Teasdale Sara, MOON'S ENDING, Strange Victory 1933

With my singing I can make
A refuge for my spirit's sake,
A house of shining words, to be
My fragile IMMORTALITY.
Teasdale Sara, INTERLUDE, Love Songs 1917

It is my best that makes my songs, not I.
WHAT DO I CARE?, Flame and Shadow 1920
No one worth POSSESSING
CAN be quite POSSESSED.
Teasdale Sara, ADVICE TO A GIRL, Strange Victory 1933

What we have never had, REMAINS;
It is the things we have that go.
Teasdale Sara, WISDOM, Dark of the Moon 1926

I have no riches but my THOUGHTS,
Yet these are wealth enough for me.
Teasdale Sara, RICHES, Love Songs 1917

A hush is over everything -
Silent as women WAIT for love,
The world is WAITING for the spring.
Teasdale Sara, CENTRAL PARK AT DUSK, Helen of troy 1911

The sad WISDOM of AGE
Wells up without sound.
Teasdale Sara, AGE, Strange Victory 1933