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Sidney Lanier Quotes
Sidney Lanier
American
Poet
Born:
Feb 3
,
1842
Died:
Sep 7
,
1881
Business
Me
Music
Myself
Wisdom
Writing
Related authors:
Edgar Allan Poe
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Walt Whitman
Music is love in search of a word.
Sidney Lanier
Love
Music
Word
Search
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.
Sidney Lanier
Man
Strong
Result
Made
Aptitude
Would
Would-Be
Some
Tendency
Towards
Particular
Himself
His
Branch
Man-Made
Same
Any
Human
Human Activity
Expert
Descendants
Activity
Found
Among
Peculiar
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?'
Sidney Lanier
Music
Myself
Me
Business
World
Believe
Other
Musician
Seems
Small
Economy
Because
Question
Province
Intended
Cannot
Which
Might
Comparison
Things
Bring
Here
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.
Sidney Lanier
Business
Soul
Writing
Try
Way
Rigid
Find
Vocation
Poetry
Merging
Know
Most
Am
Test
Question
Itself
Gradually
Going
Whether
Whole
Awful
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