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Sidney Lanier
15 quotes
“Verse is a set of specially related sounds, repeated aloud.”
Sidney Lanier (1842–1881) first seen 1880 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Preface to The Science of English Verse 1880
“'Daring with my poem 'Special Pleading' to give myself such freedom as I desired, in my own style'”
Sidney Lanier (1842–1881) said by 1881 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Sweet Sometime, fly fast for me.”
Sidney Lanier (1842–1881) first seen 1875 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Special Pleading 1875 (Lanier's poem on Time).
“My principle is, the artist shall put forth, humbly & lovingly, without bitterness, the very best & highest that is within him,utterly regardless of contemporary criticism.”
Sidney Lanier (1842–1881) first seen 1876 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Letter to the poet's father May 6 1876.
“Music means harmony, harmony means love. Love means God.”
Sidney Lanier (1842–1881) first seen 1867 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Tiger Lilies a novel, Hurd & Houghton , New York 1867
“On Poe - I esteem Poe more highly than my countrymen are wont to do . The trouble with him (Poe) was, he did not KNOW enough. He needed to know a good many more things in order to be a great poet.”
Sidney Lanier (1842–1881) said by 1881 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“On Swinburne - He invited me to eat; the service was silver and gold, but no food therein save pepper and salt.”
Sidney Lanier (1842–1881) said by 1881 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“On William Morris - He caught a crystal cupful of the yellow light of sunset, and persuading himself to dream it wine, drank it with a sort of smile.”
Sidney Lanier (1842–1881) said by 1881 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“On Whitman - His poetry refreshed me like harsh salt spray.”
Sidney Lanier (1842–1881) said by 1881 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“O Trade, O Trade! Would thou wert dead! The time needs heart — 'tis tired of head.”
Sidney Lanier (1842–1881) first seen 1875 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: The Symphony" (1875).
“And yet shall Love himself be heard, Though long deferred, though long deferred: O'er the modern waste a dove hath whirred: Music is Love in search of a word.”
Sidney Lanier (1842–1881) first seen 1875 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: The Symphony" (1875).
“Virginal shy lights, Wrought of the leaves to allure to the whisper of vows, When lovers pace timidly down through the green colonnades Of the dim sweet woods, of the dear dark woods, Of the heavenly woods and glades, That run to the radiant marginal sand-beach within The wide sea-marshes of Glynn.”
Sidney Lanier (1842–1881) first seen 1878 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: The Marshes of Glynn" (1878).
“The sun is a-wait at the ponderous gate of the West.”
Sidney Lanier (1842–1881) first seen 1878 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: The Marshes of Glynn" (1878).
“Ye marshes, how candid and simple and nothing-withholding and free Ye publish yourselves to the sky and offer yourselves to the sea! Tolerant plains, that suffer the sea and the rains and the sun, Ye spread and span like the catholic man who hath mightily won God out of knowledge and good out of infinite pain And sight out of blindness and purity out of a stain.”
Sidney Lanier (1842–1881) first seen 1878 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: The Marshes of Glynn" (1878).
“The incalculable Up-and-Down of Time.”
Sidney Lanier (1842–1881) said by 1881 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Clover", reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919).