--- title: "1 Search Word Quotes By Sidney Lanier" description: "1 Search Word quotes by Sidney Lanier. Plus more from Sidney Lanier and more Search Word sayings from other authors." image: "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/3f1/sidney-lanier-20472_language_music-is-love-in-search-of-a-word-264986_2649868.jpg" --- > [Music is love in search of a word.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/sidney-lanier/music-is-love-in-search-of-a-word/) [Sidney Lanier](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/sidney-lanier/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/3f1/sidney-lanier-20472_language_music-is-love-in-search-of-a-word-264986_2649868.jpg) ## More by Sidney Lanier > [Out of the hills of Habersham, Down the valleys of Hall, I hurry amain to reach the plain; Run the rapid and leap the…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/sidney-lanier/out-of-the-hills-of-habersham-down-the-valleys-of-hall-i-hurry-amain/) [Sidney Lanier](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/sidney-lanier/) > [Look out, Death: I am coming.-Art thou not glad? what talks we'll have.-What memories of old battles.-Come, bring the bowl, Death; I am thirsty.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/sidney-lanier/look-out-death-i-am-coming-art-thou-not-glad-what-talks-we-ll-have/) [Sidney Lanier](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/sidney-lanier/) > [I will fly in the greatness of God as the marsh-hen flies, In the freedom that fills all the space 'twixt the marsh and…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/sidney-lanier/i-will-fly-in-the-greatness-of-god-as-the-marsh-hen-flies-in-the/) [Sidney Lanier](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/sidney-lanier/) > [Music means harmony, harmony means love. Love means God.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/sidney-lanier/music-means-harmony-harmony-means-love-love-means-god/) [Sidney Lanier](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/sidney-lanier/) > [But Thee, but Thee, O sovereign Seer of time, But Thee, O poets' Poet, Wisdom's Tongue, But Thee, O man's best Man, O love's…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/sidney-lanier/but-thee-but-thee-o-sovereign-seer-of-time-but-thee-o-poets-poet/) [Sidney Lanier](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/sidney-lanier/) > [If you want to be found stand where the seeker seeks.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/sidney-lanier/if-you-want-to-be-found-stand-where-the-seeker-seeks/) [Sidney Lanier](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/sidney-lanier/) > [Well: Love and Pain Be kinfolks twain; Yet would, Oh would I could Love again.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/sidney-lanier/well-love-and-pain-be-kinfolks-twain-yet-would-oh-would-i-could-love/) [Sidney Lanier](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/sidney-lanier/) > [If a man made himself an expert in any particular branch of human activity, there would result the strong tendency that a peculiar aptitude…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/sidney-lanier/if-a-man-made-himself-an-expert-in-any-particular-branch-of-human/) [Sidney Lanier](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/sidney-lanier/) > [O Trade, O Trade! Would thou wert dead!The time needs heart - 'tis tired of head.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/sidney-lanier/o-trade-o-trade-would-thou-wert-dead-the-time-needs-heart-tis-tired/) [Sidney Lanier](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/sidney-lanier/) > [But I cannot bring myself to believe that I was intended for a musician, because it seems so small a business in comparison with…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/sidney-lanier/but-i-cannot-bring-myself-to-believe-that-i-was-intended-for-a/) [Sidney Lanier](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/sidney-lanier/) > [The sun is a-wait at the ponderous gate of the West.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/sidney-lanier/the-sun-is-a-wait-at-the-ponderous-gate-of-the-west/) [Sidney Lanier](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/sidney-lanier/) > [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.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/sidney-lanier/leap-through-the-mystery-of-death-as-the-circus-rider-leaps-through/) [Sidney Lanier](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/sidney-lanier/) > [As the woodpecker taps in a spiral quest From the root to the top of the tree, Then flies to another tree, So have…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/sidney-lanier/as-the-woodpecker-taps-in-a-spiral-quest-from-the-root-to-the-top-of/) [Sidney Lanier](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/sidney-lanier/) > [Into the woods, my Master went, Clean forspent, forspent, Into the woods my Master came, Forspent with love and shame. But the olives they…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/sidney-lanier/into-the-woods-my-master-went-clean-forspent-forspent-into-the-woods/) [Sidney Lanier](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/sidney-lanier/) > [When I hear music, it seems to me that all the sins of my life pass slowly by me with veiled faces, lay their…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/sidney-lanier/when-i-hear-music-it-seems-to-me-that-all-the-sins-of-my-life-pass/) [Sidney Lanier](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/sidney-lanier/) ```json { "@context": "https://schema.org", "@graph": [ { "@type": "ItemList", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/search-word/sidney-lanier/#itemlist", "name": "1 Search Word Quotes By Sidney Lanier", "numberOfItems": 1, "itemListElement": [ { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 1, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "Music is love in search of a word.", "creator": { "@type": "Person", "name": "Sidney Lanier" }, "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/sidney-lanier/music-is-love-in-search-of-a-word/", "image": { "@type": "ImageObject", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/3f1/sidney-lanier-20472_language_music-is-love-in-search-of-a-word-264986_2649868.jpg", "contentUrl": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/3f1/sidney-lanier-20472_language_music-is-love-in-search-of-a-word-264986_2649868.jpg", "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/3f1/sidney-lanier-20472_language_music-is-love-in-search-of-a-word-264986_2649868.jpg", "width": 1080, "height": 1080, "caption": "“Music is love in search of a word.” — Sidney Lanier", "creditText": "SMS4Smile Quotes", "creator": { "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/#organization" } } } } ] }, { "@type": "CollectionPage", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/search-word/sidney-lanier/#webpage", "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/search-word/sidney-lanier/", "name": "Search Word Quotes by Sidney Lanier", "isPartOf": { "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/#website" }, "mainEntity": { "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/search-word/sidney-lanier/#itemlist" }, "primaryImageOfPage": { "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/3f1/sidney-lanier-20472_language_music-is-love-in-search-of-a-word-264986_2649868.jpg" }, "description": "1 Search Word quotes by Sidney Lanier. 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