Bliss Carman Quotes & Sayings

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

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

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

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

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

I heard the spring light whisper
Above the dancing stream,
The world is made forever
in likeness of a dream. — Bliss Carman

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

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

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

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

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

On the shining yards of heaven
See a wider dawn unfurled ...
The eternal slaves of beauty
Are the masters of the world. — Bliss Carman

The greatest joy in nature is the absence of man. — Bliss Carman

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

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

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

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

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

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