Sara Teasdale Quotes
Joy was a flame in me Too steady to destroy. Lithe as a bending reed, Loving the storm that sways her
Quotes to Explore
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When you are young, hone your craft and write shorter pieces instead of novels, because it's really hard to finish a novel.
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I never personally complained; everybody else complained for me.
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More and more, cultural groups are cross-pollinating, and we're getting much more interesting art as a result.
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Genius and virtue are to be more often found clothed in gray than in peacock bright.
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I knew that it was my only shot to be taken seriously in the recording industry, because it's fast and broad.
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The sounder your argument, the more satisfaction you get out of it.
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I think I really benefited from going to college.
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My recipe for life is not being afraid of myself, afraid of what I think or of my opinions.
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I always loved to read, and I wanted to be part of the project of literature. My physical longevity is due to luck, and my literary longevity is due to my physical longevity.
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I have a rich, full, textured life.
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To think is to destroy. The very process of thought indicates it for the same thought, as thinking is decomposing.
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The more you know, the less you are impressed by Foucault.
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The symbol and the metaphor are as necessary to science as to poetry.
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I don’t answer to anyone.
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I know you have a heavy heart, I can feel it when we kissSo many men stronger than meHave thrown their backs out trying to lift itBut me I'm not a gambleYou can count on me to splitThe love I sell you in the evening by the morning won't exist.
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People associate me with a time when movies were pleasant, when women wore pretty dresses in films and you heard beautiful music. I always love it when people write me and say 'I was having a rotten time, and I walked into a cinema and saw one of your movies, and it made such a difference.'
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My goal keeps me alive, and no personal issue is going to interfere with that. If people try to put me in the crazy box–'crazy fucking Courtney'–go ahead. But if you think you’re going to stop me from where I’m going, you’re not going to do it. I work my ass off. I deliver the goddamn goods. And I will deliver them again.
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It's so easy to laugh, it's so easy to hate, it takes strength to be gentle and kind.
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Anyone who says that women do not have influence in men's decisions makes a vast and stupid mistake.
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Keep your attention internal, not external, not worrying about what others see, but what the Self sees.
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I've been training myself and listening to other artists and seeing where their emotion comes from, singing a heartbreak song when they're in a happy relationship.
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I've had the fame and the joy of getting laughter - those are gifts.
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A Prayer of Anselm My God, I pray that I may so know you and love you that I may rejoice in you. And if I may not do so fully in this life let me go steadily on to the day when I come to that fullness . . . Let me receive That which you promised through your truth, that my joy may be full.
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Joy was a flame in me Too steady to destroy. Lithe as a bending reed, Loving the storm that sways her
