The splendid planets run
Their courses in the sun;
Love is the gravitation of the soul.
(On Love)
More Quotes from Bliss Carman:
I am the splendid impulseThat comes before the thought,
The joy and exaltation
Wherein the life is caught.
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
And we perceive, not awe
But love is the great law
That binds the world together safe and whole.
Bliss Carman
And what is energy,
In-working, which bids be
The starry pageant and the life of earth?
Bliss Carman
Open the door to-night
Within your heart, and light
The lantern of love there to shine afar.
Bliss Carman
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