Bliss Carman Quotes

Bliss Carman — Canadian Poet born on April 15, 1861, died on June 08, 1929

Bliss Carman FRSC was a Canadian poet who lived most of his life in the United States, where he achieved international fame. He was acclaimed as Canada's poet laureate during his later years... (wikipedia)

What are facts but compromises? A fact merely marks the point where we have agreed to let investigation cease.

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.

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.

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.

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 Quotes

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