Quote#Freedom
'Daring with my poem 'Special Pleading' to give myself such freedom…
Quote bySidney Lanier · 1842–1881
Commonly attributed — not confirmed in an authoritative edition. Cited on Wikiquote to: From Memorial by William Hayes Ward to The Poems of Sidney Lanier (ed. Mary D Lanier).
English (original)
'Daring with my poem 'Special Pleading' to give myself such freedom as I desired, in my own style'
— Sidney Lanier
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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.
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.
Sweet Sometime, fly fast for me.
Verse is a set of specially related sounds, repeated aloud.
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.