Bliss Carman Quotes

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There is something in October sets the gypsy blood astir.

Bliss Carman
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.

Bliss Carman
Here's to the day
That wondrous May,
A-roaming through the heather,
When her little shoes
And my big boots
Were out on the hills together.

And here's to the night
Of our delight,
That held the stars in tether,
When her little shoes
And my big boots
Were under the bed together.

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No fidget and no reformer, just A calm observer of ought and must.

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There paused to shut the door
A fellow called the Wind,
With mystery before,
And reticence behind.

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On the shining yards of heaven
See a wider dawn unfurled....
The eternal slaves of beauty
Are the masters of the world.

Bliss Carman
The first need of being is endurance; to endure with gladness if we can, with fortitude in any event.

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The scarlet of the maples can shake me like a cry
Of bugles going by.
And my lonely spirit thrills
To see the frosty asters like a smoke upon the hills.

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.

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Thank God for poverty
That makes and keeps us free
And lets us go our unobtrusive way,
Glad of the sun and rain,
Upright, serene, humane,
Contented with the fortune of a day.

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Here's to the day when it is May
And care as light as a feather,
When your little shoes and my big boots
Go tramping over the heather.

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.

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Over the shoulders and slopes of the dune I saw the white daisies go down to the sea, A host in the sunshine, an army in June, The people God sends us to set our heart free.

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I took a day to search for God, And found Him not. But as I trod By rocky ledge, through woods untamed, Just where one scarlet lily flamed, I saw His foot print in the sod.

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It is not being out at heels that makes a man discontented, it is being out at heart. To be contented is to be good friends with yourself.

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Love manifests itself in our bodies as instinctive craving, in our souls as devotion, and in our minds as pride.

Bliss Carman