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

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Source : Sidney Lanier, Charles Roberts Anderson (1969). “Sidney Lanier: poems and letters”, Johns Hopkins University Press

Sidney Lanier

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“The older I get, the more important my view of the family is.”
“In our Nation, approximately 22.5 million children ride school buses to and from school each day, which accounts for 54 percent of all students attending grade school.”
“Let there be no more war or bloodshed between Arabs and Israelis. Let there be no more suffering or denial of rights. Let there be no more despair or loss of faith.”
“There is, as Emerson says, some central idea or conception of yourself by which all the facts of your life are arranged and classified. Change this central idea and you change the arrangement or classification of all the fact and circumstances of your life.”
“Have you ever actually listened to golfers talking to each other? "Looked good starting out..." "Better direction than last time..." "Who's away?..." It sounds like visitors' day at a home for the criminally insane.”
“One interviewer asked me: 'How do you feel that you've betrayed your father?' That wasn't really very cool.”
“I hate the technological rip-offs that pass for music formats these days, and go back to vinyl to hear a good record because the sound is always so much fuller. I don't even like listening to music in the car.”
“Get out of your house in the middle of a rainstorm, get soaked in it, and then strip down-to nothing but a smile.”

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