Wisdom is not acquired save as the result of investigation. – Sara Teasdale
Oh who can tell the range of joy or set the bounds of beauty? – Sara Teasdale

Wisdom is not acquired save as the result of investigation. – Sara Teasdale
Oh who can tell the range of joy or set the bounds of beauty? – Sara Teasdale
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. – Sara Teasdale
Life has loveliness to sell, all beautiful and splendid things, blue waves whitened on a cliff, soaring fire that sways and sings, and childrens faces looking up, holding wonder like a cup. – Sara Teasdale
What could be more lonely than to be enveloped in silence, to be the last of your people to speak your native tongue, to have no way to pass on the wisdom of the elders, to anticipate the promise of the children. This tragic fate is indeed the plight of someone somewhere roughly every two weeks. – Wade Davis