All the beauty and mystery
Of life were there, adventure bold,
Youth, and the glamour of the sea
And all its sorrows old.
(The Ships Of Saint John)
More Quotes from 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
I am the splendid impulse
That comes before the thought,
The joy and exaltation
Wherein the life is caught.
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 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
The lover of child Marjory
Had one white hour of life brim full;
Now the old nurse, the rocking sea,
Hath him to lull.
Bliss Carman
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