Sidney Lanier

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“'Daring with my poem 'Special Pleading' to give myself such freedom as I desired, in my own style'”
— From Memorial by William Hayes Ward to The Poems of Sidney Lanier (ed. Mary D Lanier)
“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.”
— Letter to the poet's father May 6 1876.
“Music means harmony, harmony means love. Love means God.”
— Tiger Lilies a novel, Hurd & Houghton , New York 1867
“On Whitman - His poetry refreshed me like harsh salt spray.”
— From Memorial by William Hayes Ward to The Poems of Sidney Lanier (ed. Mary D Lanier)
“The sun is a-wait at the ponderous gate of the West.”
— "The Marshes of Glynn" (1878).

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