Bliss Carman Quotes

#1. Love is terribly sincere and great. I suppose that is why so many people are afraid of it, and so few can live up to it. - Bliss Carman to Gladys Baldwin, 1915 (age 52)

Jeanette Lynes

#2. 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

#3. I would like any type of character that I could be creative with and totally delve into.

Noah Hathaway

#4. There is something in October sets the gypsy blood astir: We must rise and follow her, When from every hill of flame She calls, and calls each vagabond by name.

William Bliss

#5. Rather than communicating blame communicate your standards for proper future treatment.

Bryant McGill

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

Bliss Carman

#7. The greatest joy in nature is the absence of man.

Bliss Carman

#8. I would hate to be immortal forever.

Alex Meraz

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

Bliss Carman

#10. 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

#11. Any reward that is worth having only comes to the industrious. The success which is made in any walk of life is measured almost exactly by the amout of hard work that is put into it.

Calvin Coolidge

#12. 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

#13. On the shining yards of heaven
See a wider dawn unfurled ...
The eternal slaves of beauty
Are the masters of the world.

Bliss Carman

#14. 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

#15. 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

#16. 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

#17. I do think it is a kind of illness in the sense that it sets you apart, it injects you with an endless, unslakable thirst to keep making the thing. The artist has to voluntarily use themselves endlessly.

Rebecca Miller

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

Bliss Carman

#19. January was the season for house robberies and violence. Christmas was over, and the new year just reminded you of how little your life had changed, and man, people got angry in January.

Gillian Flynn

#20. 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

#21. 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

#22. 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

#23. 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

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

Bliss Carman

#25. 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

#26. 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

#27. 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