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I heard the spring light whisper Above the dancing stream, The world is made forever in likeness of a dream.

Bliss Carman

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Bliss Carman
Age: 68 †
Born: 1861
Born: April 15
Died: 1929
Died: June 8
Poet
William Carman
William Bliss Carman
Inspirational
Likeness
Dream
Whisper
Light
Stream
Made
Streams
Life
Dancing
World
Spring
Heard
Forever

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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.
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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.
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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.
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The greatest joy in nature is the absence of man.
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It is not being out at heels that makes a man discontented, it is being out at heart. To be contented is to be good friends with yourself.
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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.
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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.
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The first need of being is endurance to endure with gladness if we can, with fortitude in any event.
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On the shining yards of heaven See a wider dawn unfurled. . . . The eternal slaves of beauty Are the masters of the world.
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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.
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