Sara Teasdale Quotes

Dark clouds become heaven's flowers when kissed by light.

How many lessons of faith and beauty we should lose, if there were no winter in our year!

Sorrows are gardeners: they plant flowers along waste places, and teach vines to cover barren heaps.

When you take the U out of mourning, it's a brand new day!

If Winter comes, can Spring be far behind?

Don't grieve. Anything you lose comes round in another form.

What the caterpillar calls the end of the world the master calls a butterfly.

The storm came. Lives were washed away. Ancient pains resurfaced. Now it is time for a sea of change.

Loss is nothing else but change, and change is Nature's delight.

Today is a new day for the land.

I can be almost terminally grief-stricken because things are so dire, but at the same time, there's a real lightheartedness about just the recoverability of life, of how things change, how they're not the same, ever again.

This is the spot where I will lie When life has had enough of me, These are the grasses that will blow Above me like a living sea. These gay old lilies will not shrink To draw their life from death of mine, And I will give my body's fire To make blue flowers on this vine. "O Soul," I said, "have you no tears? Was not the body dear to you?" I heard my soul say carelessly, "The myrtle flowers will grow more blue.

Darkness transfigures into light, bad transfigures into good, grief transfigures into grace, empty transfigures into full. God wastes nothing – ‘makes everything work out according to his plan.’ (Ephesians 1:11).

Emptiness is bound to bloom, like hundreds of grasses blossoming.

Change doesn't have to be hard, and healing doesn't have to hurt. Surely by now you know that every thing happens for a reason! There is something better awaiting you on the other side of this.

Do not grieve over any joy that has gone forever, for it will return to you in another form, know that for sure.

The same Jesus Who turned water into wine can transform your home, your life, your family, and your future. He is still in the miracle-working business, and His business is the business of transformation.

How do you plan a rebirth? I'm not sure you do. You just stand in the darkness until you can't endure it any long, and then you move forward until you're standing in the light.

Rebirth is almost impossible without the darkness.....I tell myself I am experiencing the death of myself as mother, the death of myself as a younger woman -- precious old lives going by the wayside. Of course, I should let myself grieve. To deny the grief is to squander a transforming and radiant possibility.

God grows fragrant flowers of hope in the ashes of loss.

When he plays all the flowers swap colors and years and decades and centuries of rain pour back into the sky

Think of your child, then, not as dead, but as living; not as a flower that has withered, but as one that is transplanted, and touched by a Divine hand, is blooming in richer colors and sweeter shades than those of earth.

All human life has its seasons and cycles, and no one's personal chaos can be permanent. Winter, after all, gives way to spring and summer, though sometimes when branches stay dark and the earth cracks with ice, one thinks they will never come, that spring, and that summer, but they do, and always.