Bliss Carman

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. ”

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. ”