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 More Quotes by Sidney Lanier More Quotes From Sidney Lanier Verse is a set of specially related sounds, repeated aloud. Sidney Lanier verses related sound Chime out, thou little song of Spring, Sidney Lanier spring song sweet Leap through the Mystery of death as the circus-rider leaps through the papered hoop ... find Life ambling along beneath us on the Other Side. Sidney Lanier mystery-of-death circus sides Music means harmony, harmony means love. Love means God. Sidney Lanier love-means harmony mean Well: Love and Pain Sidney Lanier famous-love wells pain I have frequently noticed in myself a tendency to a diffuse style; a disposition to push my metaphors too far, employing a multitude of words to heighten the patness of the image, and so making of it a conceit rather than a metaphor, a fault copiously illustrated in the poetry of Cowley, Waller, Donne, and others of that ilk. Sidney Lanier metaphor faults style Out of the woods my Master came, Sidney Lanier woods lasts tree 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 musician believe world
