Bliss Carman Quotes

Bliss Carman shares gentle, nature-filled verses that wander through fields and hills, perfect for anyone craving calm, outdoor imagery.

15 quotes

1. 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.

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

3. The glad indomitable sea, The strong white sun.

4. 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.

5. 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.

6. 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.

7. 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.

8. There is something in the autumn that is native to my blood- Touch of manner, hint of mood; And my heart is like a rhyme, With the yellow and the purple and the crimson keeping time.

9. 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.

10. 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.

11. Where there is writing- there is a writer Where there is planning- there is a planner Where there is a building- there is a builder Where there is a miracle- there is a God!

12. 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.

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

14. Have little care that Life is brief, And less that Art is long. Success is in the silences Though Fame is in the song.

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