And we perceive, not awe
But love is the great law
That binds the world together safe and whole.
(On Love)
More Quotes from Bliss Carman:
And that we took into our handsSpirit of life or subtler thing--
Breathed on us there, and loosed the bands
Of death, and taught us, whispering,
The secret of some wonder-thing.
Bliss Carman
I am the splendid impulse
That comes before the thought,
The joy and exaltation
Wherein the life is caught.
Bliss Carman
This is the law of being
That links the threefold chain:
The life we give to beauty
Returns to us again.
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
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
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.
Bliss Carman
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