“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).
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William Bliss Carman: Citations en anglais
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).