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Bliss Carman Quotes
Page 1 of 1Bliss Carman
April 15, 1861 - June 8, 1929
Nationality: Canadian
Category: Poet
Subcategory: Canadian Poet
|  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. | | 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. | | 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. | | What are facts but compromises? A fact merely marks the point where we have agreed to let investigation cease. |
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