Strange Victory Quotes

“No one worth possessing
Can be quite possessed;
Lay that on your heart,
My young angry dear;
This truth, this hard and precious stone,
Lay it on your hot cheek,
Let it hide your tear.
Hold it like a crystal
When you are alone
And gaze in the depths of the icy stone.
Long, look long and you will be blessed:
No one worth possessing
Can be quite possessed.”
― Sara Teasdale, Strange Victory

“”There will be rest”
There will be rest, and sure stars shining
Over the roof-tops crowned with snow,
A reign of rest, serene forgetting,
The music of stillness holy and low.
I will make this world of my devising

Out of a dream in my lonely mind.

I shall find the crystal of peace,—above me

Stars I shall find.”
― Sara Teasdale, Strange Victory

“To the sea
Bitter and beautiful, sing no more;
Scarf of spindrift strewn on the shore,
Burn no more in the noon-day light,
Let there be night for me, let. there be night.

On the restless beaches I used to range
The two that I have loved have walked with me—
I saw them change and my own heart change—
I cannot face the unchanging sea.”
― Sara Teasdale, Strange Victory

“Truce
Take heart, for now the battle is half over,
We have not shamed our sires;
Pride, the lone penon, ravelled by the storm-wind
Stands in the sunset fires.

It may be, with the coming-on of evening
We shall be granted unassailed repose,
And what is left of dusk will be less darkness
Than luminous air, on which the crescent glows.”
― Sara Teasdale, Strange Victory