“If each poet will try to get himself down in black and white as…” — Sara Teasdale

“If each poet will try to get himself down in black and white as concisely and honestly as he can, every kind of reaction to beauty and pain will finally be recorded.”

Making honesty and precision central to the poet's task · Statement on poetic craft, in Marguerite Wilkinson, New Voices, 1919

Sara Teasdale

About Sara Teasdale

8 August 1884–29 January 1933

Sara Teasdale was born on 8 August 1884 in St. Louis, Missouri, and died there on 29 January 1933. During her lifetime she became one of the best-known American lyric poets of the early twentieth century, admired for verse that appeared effortless: brief, melodious, emotionally direct, and exquisitely shaped. Her…

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