Carolina QuotesOn Whitman - His poetry refreshed me like harsh salt spray.
Sidney Lanier Connected to the Carolinas
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From Memorial by William Hayes Ward to The Poems of Sidney Lanier (ed. Mary D Lanier)
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“On Whitman - His poetry refreshed me like harsh salt spray.” Sidney Lanier. Carolina Quotes, record CQ-06737E0617. https://carolinaquotes.com/quote/06737e0617
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Ye marshes, how candid and simple and nothing-withholding and free Ye publish yourselves to the sky and offer yourselves to the sea! Tolerant plains, that suffer the sea and the rains and the sun, Ye spread and span like the catholic man who hath mightily won God out of knowledge and good out of infinite pain And sight out of blindness and purity out of a stain.
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