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Bliss Carman
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Bliss Carman

“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

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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

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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.”

- Bliss Carman

Source/Notes: The kinship of nature (1903 edition)
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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

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“What are facts but compromises? A fact merely marks the point where we have agreed to let investigation cease.”

- Bliss Carman

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“Here's to the day when it is May And care as light as a feather, When your little shoes and my big boots Go tramping over the heather.”

- Bliss Carman

Source/Notes: A Toast, reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919).
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“There paused to shut the door A fellow called the Wind, With mystery before, And reticence behind.”

- Bliss Carman

Source/Notes: At the Granite Gate, reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919).
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“The glad indomitable sea, The strong white sun.”

- Bliss Carman

Source/Notes: A Sea Child, reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919).
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“The greatest joy in nature is the absence of man.”

- Bliss Carman

Source/Notes: New York Times review of Mr. Carman's Prose; A Volume Of Little Essays By The Canadian Poet. (1903).
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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.”

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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

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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.”

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“Whether it be to failure or success; the first need of being is endurance - to endure with gladness if we can, with fortitude in any event.”

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“When promise and patience are wearing thin, When endurance is almost driven in, When our angels stand in a waiting hush, Remember the Marne and Ferdinand Foch.”

- Bliss Carman

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