Best Quotes by Bliss Carman (Top 8)

  1. 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.
  2. 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.
  3. Lord of the far horizons, Give us the eyes to see Over the verge of the sundown The beauty that is to be.
  4. 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.
  5. What are facts but compromises? A fact merely marks the point where we have agreed to let investigation cease.
  6. There is a passion for perfection which you rarely see fully developed but . . . in successful lives it is never wholly lacking.
  7. The first need of being is endurance; to endure with gladness if we can, with fortitude in any event.
  8. The greatest joy in nature is the absence of man.