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

- Bliss Carman

On the shining yards of heaven See a wider dawn unfurled. . . . The eternal slaves of beauty Are the masters of the world.

- Bliss Carman

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.

- Bliss Carman

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 …

- Bliss Carman

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, Conten…

- Bliss Carman

Lord of the far horizons, Give us the eyes to see Over the verge of the sundown The beauty that is to be.

- Bliss Carman

The greatest joy in nature is the absence of man.

- Bliss Carman

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 agree…

- Bliss Carman

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 …

- Bliss Carman