Top 25 Quotes by Sidney Lanier of 29 - Page 2

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

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

Tired, Heart, Needs

Sidney Lanier (1999). “Poems of Sidney Lanier”, p.60, University of Georgia Press

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

Style, Faults, Metaphor