“The greatest joy in nature is the absence of man.”
New York Times review of Mr. Carman's Prose; A Volume Of Little Essays By The Canadian Poet. (1903).
Bliss Carman war kanadischer Dichter.
“The greatest joy in nature is the absence of man.”
New York Times review of Mr. Carman's Prose; A Volume Of Little Essays By The Canadian Poet. (1903).
The full toast, as reported in New York Sun. Quoted in John Coldwell Adams, Confederation Voices http://www.uwo.ca/english/canadianpoetry/confederation/John%20Coldwell%20Adams/Confederation%20Voices/chapter%203.html, 2007.
A Toast, reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919).
“There paused to shut the door
A fellow called the Wind,
With mystery before,
And reticence behind.”
At the Granite Gate, reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919).
“The glad indomitable sea,
The strong white sun.”
A Sea Child, reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919).