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Sidney Lanier

American Poet

Born: Feb 3, 1842

Died: Sep 7, 1881

Business Me Music Myself Wisdom Writing

Related authors: Edgar Allan Poe Emily Dickinson Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Maya Angelou Ralph Waldo Emerson Robert Frost T. S. Eliot 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

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

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