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Category Archive: Sidney Lanier

Sidney Lanier Quote: “Music is love in search of…”

Music is love in search of a word.

October 19, 2021 1842, American, March 3, Quotes by Poets, Sidney Lanier

Sidney Lanier Quote: “If you want to be found…”

If you want to be found stand where the seeker seeks.

October 14, 2021 1842, American, March 3, Quotes by Poets, Sidney Lanier

Sidney Lanier Quote: “Gradually I find that my whole…”

Gradually I find that my whole soul is merging itself into this business of writing, and especially of writing poetry. I am going to try it; and am going to test, in the most rigid way I know, the awful question whether it is my vocation.

February 5, 2021 1842, American, March 3, Quotes by Poets, Sidney Lanier

Sidney Lanier Quote: “Virtues are acquired through endeavor, which…”

Virtues are acquired through endeavor, which rests wholly upon yourself.

August 25, 2020 1842, American, March 3, Quotes by Poets, Sidney Lanier

Sidney Lanier Quote: “If a man made himself an…”

If a man made himself an expert in any particular branch of human activity, there would result the strong tendency that a peculiar aptitude towards the same branch would be found among some of his descendants.

January 18, 2020 1842, American, March 3, Quotes by Poets, Sidney Lanier

Sidney Lanier Quote: “I have frequently noticed in myself…”

I have frequently noticed in myself a tendency to a diffuse style; a disposition to push my metaphors too far, employing a multitude of words to heighten the patness of the image, and so making of it a conceit rather than a metaphor, a fault copiously illustrated in the poetry of Cowley, Waller, Donne, and others of that ilk.

November 14, 2019 1842, American, March 3, Quotes by Poets, Sidney Lanier

Sidney Lanier Quote: “But I cannot bring myself to…”

But I cannot bring myself to believe that I was intended for a musician, because it seems so small a business in comparison with other things which, it seems to me, I might do. Question here: ‘What is the province of music in the economy of the world?’

October 22, 2019 1842, American, March 3, Quotes by Poets, Sidney Lanier
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