Bliss Carman Quotes

Canada, Poet
April 15, 1861 – June, 8, 1929.

Bliss Carman, FRSC (April 15, 1861 – June 8, 1929) was a Canadian poet who lived most of his life in the United States, where he achieved international fame. He was acclaimed as Canada's poet laureate during his later years

Here's to the day when it is MayAnd care as light as a feather,When your little shoes and my big bootsGo tramping over the heather.

Bliss Carman
- Light
- Shoes
What are facts but compromises? A fact merely marks the point where we have agreed to let investigation cease.

Bliss Carman

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
- Joy
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
- Long
- May
The glad indomitable sea,The strong white sun.

Bliss Carman
- Strong
- Sun
- Sea
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
- May
- Passion
The greatest joy in nature is the absence of man.

Bliss Carman
- Nature
- Joy
Here’s to the dayThat wondrous May,A-roaming through the heather,When her little shoesAnd my big boots Were out on the hills together.And here’s to the night Of our delight, That held the stars in tether, When her little shoes And my big boots Were under the bed together.

Bliss Carman
- May
- Together
- Night

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
- World
- Wish
There paused to shut the doorA fellow called the Wind,With mystery before,And reticence behind.

Bliss Carman
- Wind