Sidney Lanier

"Verse is a set of specially related sounds, repeated aloud."

"'Daring with my poem 'Special Pleading' to give myself such freedom as I desired, in my own style'"

"Sweet Sometime, fly fast for me."

"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."

"Music means harmony, harmony means love. Love means God."

"On Poe - I esteem Poe more highly than my countrymen are wont to do . The trouble with him (Poe) was, he did not KNOW enough. He needed to know a good many more things in order to be a great poet."

"On Swinburne - He invited me to eat; the service was silver and gold, but no food therein save pepper and salt."

"On William Morris - He caught a crystal cupful of the yellow light of sunset, and persuading himself to dream it wine, drank it with a sort of smile."

"On Whitman - His poetry refreshed me like harsh salt spray."

"O Trade, O Trade! Would thou wert dead! The time needs heart — 'tis tired of head."

"And yet shall Love himself be heard, Though long deferred, though long deferred: O'er the modern waste a dove hath whirred: Music is Love in search of a word."

"Virginal shy lights, Wrought of the leaves to allure to the whisper of vows, When lovers pace timidly down through the green colonnades Of the dim sweet woods, of the dear dark woods, Of the heavenly woods and glades, That run to the radiant marginal sand-beach within The wide sea-marshes of Glynn."

"The sun is a-wait at the ponderous gate of the West."

"Ye marshes, how candid and simple and nothing-withholding and free Ye publish yourselves to the sky and offer yourselves to the sea! Tolerant plains, that suffer the sea and the rains and the sun, Ye spread and span like the catholic man who hath mightily won God out of knowledge and good out of infinite pain And sight out of blindness and purity out of a stain."

"The incalculable Up-and-Down of Time."