Bliss Carman Quotes

• 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, Business, Work

  Bliss Carman (1903). “The Kinship of Nature”

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• The greatest joy in nature is the absence of man.

  Bliss Carman

  Nature, Men, Joy

  Bliss Carman (1903). “The Kinship of Nature”

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• 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

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• 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

  Bliss Carman (1931). “Bliss Carman's Poems”, McClelland & Stewart

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• 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, Eye, Desire

  Bliss Carman (1904). “The Friendship of Art”, Boston : L.C. Page

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• 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

  Bliss Carman (1931). “Bliss Carman's Poems”, McClelland & Stewart

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• 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

  Tyrants, Wish, World

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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

  Bliss Carman (1903). “The Kinship of Nature”

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• 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

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• 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, Untamed, Ledges

  Bliss Carman (1931). “Bliss Carman's Poems”, McClelland & Stewart

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• 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

  Bliss Carman (1904). “The Friendship of Art”, Boston : L.C. Page

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• 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

  Bliss Carman (1931). “Bliss Carman's Poems”, McClelland & Stewart

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• 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

  Bliss Carman, Richard Hovey (1905). “Songs from Vagabondia”

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• There is a passion for perfection which you will rarely see fully developed; but you may note this fact, that in successful lives it is never wholly lacking.

  Bliss Carman

  Passion, Successful, Perfection

  "The Friendship of Art".

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• It is not being out at heels that makes a man discontented, it is being out at heart. To be contented is to be good friends with yourself.

  Bliss Carman

  Heart, Good Friend, Men

  Bliss Carman (1904). “The Friendship of Art”, Boston : L.C. Page

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• A 'fact' merely marks the point where we have agreed to let investigation cease.

  Bliss Carman

  Agreement, Facts, Investigation

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• 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

  1923 Ballads and Lyrics,'Envoi'. These lines are reproduced on the plaque erected in his honour at the University of New Brunswick, Fredericton, Canada.

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• 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.

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  Rain, Thank God, Way

  Bliss Carman (1906). “Pipes of Pan: Containing "From the Book of Myths", "From the Green Book of the Bards", "Songs of the Sea Children", "Songs from a Northern Garden", "From the Book of Valentines,"”

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• 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.

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  Heart, Sunshine, Army

  Bliss Carman (1931). “Bliss Carman's Poems”, McClelland & Stewart

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• Love manifests itself in our bodies as instinctive craving, in our souls as devotion, and in our minds as pride.

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  Pride, Soul, Mind

  Bliss Carman (1903). “The Kinship of Nature”

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