Diana Gulenko.Sara Teasdale.

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Wisdom.Sara Teasdale When I have ceased to break my wings Against the faultiness of things, And learned that compromises wait Behind each hardly opened gate, When I can look Life in the eyes, Grown calm and very coldly wise, Life will have given me the Truth, And taken in exchange -- my youth.

Мудрість.Сара Тісдейл Коли я припиню ламати собі крила, Б'ючись з недосконалістю світу, Коли зрозумію, що за кожними дверима Очікують мене компроміси, Коли не кліпаючи гляну в очі Життю З рівним спокоєм і прагматизмом, Коли в мені оселиться Мудрість, - Життя відкриє мені Істину, Але обміняє на Юність.    Translated by Gulenko Diana

Misha Vorotilov. Sara Teasdale. Joy

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JOY by: Sara Teasdale (1884-1933)  AM wild, I will sing to the trees, I will sing to the stars in the sky, I love, I am loved, he is mine, Now at last I can die! I am sandaled with wind and with flame, I have heart-fire and singing to give, I can tread on the grass or the stars, Now at last I can live!

Радість Перекладено Михайлом Воротіловим Я вітер, я буду співати деревам, Я буду співати зіркам, що на небі, Люблю я, кохана я ним, Тепер я вже можу померти! Вдягну я сандалі, що з вітру й вогню, Палаюче серце й пісні поверну, Блукатиму я по зірках і траві, Нарешті життя усміхнулось мені!

Sarah Teasdale (8 August 1884- 29 January 1933)

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Sara Teasdale (August 8, 1884 – January 29, 1933), was an American lyrical poet. She was born Sarah Trevor Teasdale in St. Louis, Missouri.

Reading a lovely little bio of Sara we find a little girl, born into privilege, a child with servants. She grows up, educated, private schools, etc. and slightly ill most of her sheltered life, but always the poet. 
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Known as Sadie in her family. 
She had a brother and sister, but she was raised much like an only child because her siblings were nearly twenty years older than her.


Throughout her life
, Teasdale suffered poor health and it was not until she was nine that she was judged healthy enough to begin school – a private school for children just one block away from her home. In 1898 she attended Mary Institute, and the following year she enrolled in Hosmer Hall, from which she graduated in 1903. 

Her influences included the actress Duse,
whom she never saw perform,


the British poet Christina Rossetti,


and numerous trips to Europe, beginning in 1905.


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Teasdale's first poem was published in Reedy's Mirror, a local newspaper, in 1907.

Her first volume of poetry, Sonnets to Duse, and Other Poems, was published in 1907

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Teasdale's second collection of poems, Helen of Troy and Other Poems, was published in 1911.
Nastia Bulavina. Sara Teasdale. The wind
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There were three men in Sara Teasdale’s life: 
The poet Vachel Lindsay, who loved her and, in 1913, wanted to marry her, but he didn't feel that he could provide enough money or stability to keep her satisfied; He would recite his poems and draw his pictures in exchange for a meal and a bed.
(Sara fell in love with poet Vachel Lindsay. He wrote her daily love letters, but nevertheless she married Ernst Filsinger in 1914 when she was 30;) 
Ernst Filsinger, a rich exporter who had been her admirerer for some years; 
John Hall Wheelock, poet and senior editor at Charles Scribner and Sons Publishers, whose love for him went unrequited.
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After her marriage in 1914 she went by the name Sara Teasdale Filsinger

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Teasdale's third poetry collection, Rivers to the Sea, was published in 1915 and was a best seller
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Tania Andreieva. Sara Teasdale. Enough
Alina Shpak. Sara Teasdale. Morning
Natasha Berdychevska. Sara Teasdale. May night
Catherina Gaidai. Sara Teasdale. After Parting
Marianna Khomeriki. Sara Teasdale. Alone
Ira Vasylenko. Sara Teasdale. After love
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In 1918, her poetry collection Love Songs (released 1917) won three awards:

the Columbia University Poetry Society prize,
the 1918 Pulitzer Prize for poetry 
and the annual prize of the Poetry Society of America.

Alina Sanotska. Sara Teasdale. I thought of you
Natalia Derevianko. Sara Teasdale. If Death Is Kind. A Prayer
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Teasdale's major themes were: love, nature's beauty, and death, 
and her poems were much loved during the early 20th century.
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One biographer said of Sara Teasdale's poems, "She had a gift as simple and natural as breathing. It caught one unaware and left the most critical mind astonished and helpless.
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But shortly before World War I a "new" Poetry burst upon the scene which sought to break away from the old romanticism and mythological references--a poetry that sought to portray actual life in the language of everyday people. Among the new innovators were Carl Sandburg, Vachel Lindsay, Amy Lowell, Edgar Lee Masters and Robert Frost.
By the new standards Sara Teasdale with her traditional technique and conventional rhyming patterns should have become one of the fleeting, soon-to-be-forgotten poets of the club woman culture. Instead her reputation spread and she gained admirers, for her poetry was entirely of herself, an expression of her own inner world; her poetry spoke to the heart and she remained uninfluenced by the "new poets."Dima Pyrozhenko. Sara Teasdale. Did you never know?
Illia Toropets. Sara Teasdale. My heave heart
Kristina Chaplygyna. Sara Teasdale. Joy
Chertova Oleksandra. Sara Teasdale. What do i care?

Said Teasdale said, "The poet must put far from him the amazing word, the learned allusion, the facile inversion, the clever twist of thought, for all of these things will blur his poem and distract his reader. He must not overcrowd his lines with figures of speech, because in piling these one upon another he defeats his own purpose...the poet should try to give his poem the quiet swiftness of flame, so that the reader will feel and not think while he is reading. But the thinking will come afterwards."
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Her strong belief in the power of American poetry and the simplicity of poetry is demonstrated in this quote:

"A fairly wide acquaintance with the poetry of England makes me sure that we [Americans] are nearer than they are to producing great work...As for my own work, I feel that the best of it is done in brief, exceedingly simple poems. I try to say what moves me--I never care to surprise my reader; and I avoid...all words that are not met with in common speech, and all inversions of word or phrases...
For me 
one of the greatest joys of poetry is
to know it by heart--
perhaps that is why the simple, 
song-like poems appeal to me most--
they are the easiest to learn."
(The above quote is extracted from Our Poets of Today by Howard Willard Cook (New York : Moffat, Yard, 1918)
Rita Simakova. Sara Teasdale. Change
Alina Sanotska. Sara Teasdale. I thought of you
Alina Shpak. Sara Teasdale. Morning
Alena Yevtushenko. Sara Teasdale. I am not yours
Vika Prokopets . Sara Teasdale. Let it be forgotten.
Diana Gulenko.Sara Teasdale.
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Teasdale was very much a product of her Victorian upbringing, and she was never able to experience in life the passion that she expressed in her poetry.

Filsinger was away a lot on business which caused a lot of loneliness for Teasdale.
She was not happy in her marriage, and she divorced Filsinger in 1929, against his wishes.
Filsinger was shocked and surprised.
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Teasdale's health further declined. On the morning of January 29, 1933, in her New York City apartment, Teasdale took an overdose of sleeping pills, lay down in a warm bath, fell asleep, and never woke up again.

Her last, and some say her finest, collection of verse, Strange Victory, was published posthumously that same year.**

She is interred in the Bellefontaine Cemetery in St. Louis.

Flowers for Sara Teasdale

"There Will Come Soft Rains" is a short story by science fiction author Ray Bradbury which was first published in the May 6, 1950

In the original Collier's story, the story's events take place in a deserted house in the city of Allendale, California, on April 28, 1985 (a year changed to 2026 in later printings). The title and motif of the story, as outlined above, comes from Sara Teasdale's poem, "There Will Come Soft Rains", which had a post-apocalyptic setting inspired by World War I. The imagery of the poem is echoed and expanded in the story.
Tetiana Pikush. Sara Teasdale. Wisdom


What is a Iamb?Sara Teasdale's poems show a mastery of cadence and rhythm, making her lines melodious; it is easy to be lulled into listening to the music of words that are deceptively simple, yet evoke strong moods and pictures--often with a surprise at the end:

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