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Bliss Carman Quotes

Type:
Poet Quotes
Category:
Canadian Poet Quotes
Date of Birth:
April 15, 1861
Date of Death:
June 8, 1929
Nationality:
Canadian
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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

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

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

Set me a task in which I can put something of my very self, and it is a task no longer. It is joy and art.
Bliss Carman

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.
Bliss Carman

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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