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Bliss Carman
Canadian
Poet
About the author
What are facts but compromises? A fact merely marks the point where we have agreed to let investigation cease.
Bliss Carman,
Canadian
Poet
#Fact
#Facts
#Investigation
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.
Bliss Carman,
Canadian
Poet
#Successful
#Will
#May
#Passion
#Perfection
#Fact
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,
Canadian
Poet
#Art
#Self
#Joy
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.
Bliss Carman,
Canadian
Poet
#World
#Fact
#Facts
#Tyranny
#Investigation
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.
Bliss Carman,
Canadian
Poet
#Life
#Will
#May
#Man
#Indifference