Sara Teasdale
(1884 - 1933) U.S.A.
Lyric poet
 Sara Teasdale was born in St. Louis, Missouri, and lived both on Lindell Blvd. and on Kingsbury Place. While attending Mary Institute and Hosmer Hall, she began writing poems.
First published in 1907, Teasdale wrote several collections of poetry in the following decade and became known for the intensity of her lyrics, her unaffected quatrains which, almost bare of imagery and sparing in metaphor, attempt the articulation of a mood, rather than quest of universals.
 In 1918 Love Songs won the Poetry Society Prize that was essentially the first Pulitzer Prize for Poetry. Expressing disenchantment with marriage, Teasdale's later poetry resonated with suffering and strength.
According to one biographer, Sara spoke for "women emerging from the humility of subservience into the pride of achievement."
Sara Teasdale was a lesbian. She had a seven-year relationship with the poet Margaret Conklin, of which she wrote:
"There is a quiet at the heart of love,
And I have pierced the pain and come to peace."
Her work include:
- Sonnets to Duse and Other Poems (1907)
- Helen of Troy and Other Poems (1911)
- Rivers to the Sea (1915)
- Love Songs (1917, special Pulitzer award)
- Flame and Shadow (1920)
- Dark of the Moon (1926)
- Strange Victory (1933)
- Collected Poems (1937)
If you want to read some of Sara Teasdale's quatrains, please go at her page in our book Famous Homoerotic Poems.
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