Sidney Lanier: Zitate auf Englisch
"The Marshes of Glynn" (1878).
Poetry
“Music means harmony, harmony means love. Love means God.”
Tiger Lilies a novel, Hurd & Houghton , New York 1867
“Verse is a set of specially related sounds, repeated aloud.”
Preface to The Science of English Verse 1880
"The Marshes of Glynn" (1878).
Poetry
“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)
“Sweet Sometime, fly fast for me.”
Special Pleading 1875 (Lanier's poem on Time).
“The sun is a-wait at the ponderous gate of the West.”
"The Marshes of Glynn" (1878).
Poetry
“The incalculable Up-and-Down of Time.”
"Clover", reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919).
Poetry
“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)
