Creative Quotations from . . .
Bliss Carman
(1861-1929) born on Apr 15
Canadian "poet, author". "His volumes of popular verse included "Sappho," 1902 and "Songs from Vagabondia," 1894."
 
   
F
Lord of the far horizons,
Give us the eyes to see
Over the verge of the sundown
The beauty that is to be."

R
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.
A
"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."
N
"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."
K
"Have little care that Life is brief,
And less that Art is long.
Success is in the silences
Though Fame is in the song."


Published Sources for the above Quotations:
F: "In "The Speaker's Electronic Reference Collection," AApex Software, 1994."
R: "Attributed; in "On Having Known a Poet," "The Atlantic Monthly," p. 712, May 1906."
A: "In "The Speaker's Electronic Reference Collection," AApex Software, 1994."
N: ""Progressive Farmer.""
K: ""Envoy," "Songs from Vagabondia," 1894."



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