List of Bliss Carman Quotes

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.

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.

Love Manifests Itself In Our Bodies As Instinctive Craving, In Our Souls As Devotion, And In Our Minds As Pride.

Have Little Care That Life Is Brief, And Less That Art Is Long. Success Is In The Silences Though Fame Is In The Song.

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.

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.

A 'fact' Merely Marks The Point Where We Have Agreed To Let Investigation Cease.

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.

On The Shining Yards Of Heaven See A Wider Dawn Unfurled. . . . The Eternal Slaves Of Beauty Are The Masters Of The World.

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.

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.

The First Need Of Being Is Endurance; To Endure With Gladness If We Can, With Fortitude In Any Event.