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.
More Quotes from Bliss Carman:
And with the verbal creedThat God is love indeed,
Who dares make Love his god before all men?
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
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
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 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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