Bliss Carman famous quotes

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The first need of being is endurance; to endure with gladness if we can, with fortitude in any event.
-- Bliss Carman

#Endurance #Events #Needs
Set me a task in which I can put something of my very self, and it is a task no longer; it is joy; it is art.
-- Bliss Carman

#Art #Work #Self
Lord of the far horizons, Give us the eyes to see Over the verge of the sundown The beauty that is to be.
-- Bliss Carman

#Beauty #Eye #Giving
There is something in the autumn that is native to my blood- Touch of manner, hint of mood; And my heart is like a rhyme, With the yellow and the purple and the crimson keeping time.
-- Bliss Carman

#Heart #Autumn #Blood
I heard the spring light whisper Above the dancing stream, The world is made forever in likeness of a dream.
-- Bliss Carman

#Inspirational #Life #Dream
I often wish... that I could rid the world of the tyranny of facts. What are facts but compromises? A fact merely marks the point where we have agreed to let investigation cease.
-- Bliss Carman

#Wish #Facts #World
There is only one way in the world to be distinguished. Follow your instinct! Be yourself, and you'll be somebody. Be one more blind follower of the blind, and you will have the oblivion you desire.
-- Bliss Carman

#Being Yourself #Desire #Followers
There is a passion for perfection which you rarely see fully developed but . . . in successful lives it is never wholly lacking.
-- Bliss Carman

#Passion #Successful #Perfection
Indifference may not wreck a man's life at any one turn, but it will destroy him with a kind of dry-rot in the long run.
-- Bliss Carman

#Life #Running #Men
Over the shoulders and slopes of the dune I saw the white daisies go down to the sea, A host in the sunshine, an army in June, The people God sends us to set our heart free.
-- Bliss Carman

#Heart #Army #Sunshine
A 'fact' merely marks the point where we have agreed to let investigation cease.
-- Bliss Carman

#Facts #Investigation #Mark
Have little care that Life is brief, And less that Art is long. Success is in the silences Though Fame is in the song.
-- Bliss Carman

#Song #Art #Long
On the shining yards of heaven See a wider dawn unfurled. . . . The eternal slaves of beauty Are the masters of the world.
-- Bliss Carman

#Shining #Heaven #Dawn
Where there is writing- there is a writer Where there is planning- there is a planner Where there is a building- there is a builder Where there is a miracle- there is a God!
-- Bliss Carman

#Writing #Miracle #Planning
The greatest joy in nature is the absence of man.
-- Bliss Carman

#Nature #Men #Joy
Thank God for poverty That makes and keeps us free And lets us go our unobtrusive way, Glad of the sun and rain, Upright, serene, humane, Contented with the fortune of a day.
-- Bliss Carman

#Rain #Thank God #Way
The scarlet of the maples can shake me like a cry Of bugles going by. And my lonely spirit thrills To see the frosty asters like a smoke upon the hills.
-- Bliss Carman

#Lonely #Autumn #Asters
I took a day to search for God, And found Him not. But as I trod By rocky ledge, through woods untamed, Just where one scarlet lily flamed, I saw His foot print in the sod.
-- Bliss Carman

#Feet #Saws #Untamed

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