Sidney Lanier Quotes

Music is love in search of a word.

Through the seas of dreams and the seas of fantasies, through the seas of solitudes and vacancies, and through myself, the deepest of the seas, I strive to thee, Nirvana.

Street-Cries II. The Ship of Earth Thou ship of Earth, with Death, and Birth, and Life, and Sex aboard, And fires of Desires burning hotly in the hold, I fear thee, O! I fear thee, for I hear the tongue and sword At battle on the deck, and the wild mutineers are bold! The dewdrop morn may fall from off the petal of the sky, But all the deck is wet with blood and stains the crystal red. A pilot, God, a pilot! for the helm is left awry, And the best sailors in the ship lie there among the dead! Prattville, Alabama, 1868

The fact is, if his majesty had been a little boy, he would have been whipped and sent to bed for the sulks;

I am but a small-winged bird: But I will conquer the big world As the bee-martin beats the crow By attacking it always from Above.

His song was only living aloud, His work, a singing with his hand!