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.
More Quotes from Bliss Carman:
This is the law of beingThat links the threefold chain:
The life we give to beauty
Returns to us again.
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
The splendid planets run
Their courses in the sun;
Love is the gravitation of the soul.
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
And that we took into our hands
Spirit 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
And with the verbal creed
That God is love indeed,
Who dares make Love his god before all men?
Bliss Carman
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