“The deepest feelings are often the quietest ones.” — Sara Teasdale | V2Melody

“The deepest feelings are often the quietest ones.”

Recognising restraint as a form of emotional intensity · Journal and correspondence, commonly attributed

About Sara Teasdale

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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“I would rather have written one perfect lyric than a hundred books of prose.”

Expressing her commitment to concentrated lyrical form · Correspondence, commonly attributed

Art
Poetry

“The reader should be barely conscious of the form, the rhymes or the rhythm.”

Advocating unobtrusive poetic technique · Statement on poetic craft, in Marguerite Wilkinson, New Voices, 1919

“For generations readers have been accustomed to certain forms of rhythms and to certain rhyme-schemes.”

Recognising the accumulated familiarity of traditional poetic forms · Statement on poetic craft, in Marguerite Wilkinson, New Voices, 1919

Music
Poetry