Bliss Carman Quotes
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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.
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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.
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What are facts but compromises? A fact merely marks the point where we have agreed to let investigation cease.
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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.
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The glad indomitable sea,The strong white sun.
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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.
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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.
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The greatest joy in nature is the absence of man.
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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.
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There paused to shut the doorA fellow called the Wind,With mystery before,And reticence behind.