Canadian "poet, author".
"His volumes of popular verse included "Sappho," 1902 and "Songs from Vagabondia," 1894."
Lord of the far horizons, Give us the eyes to see Over the verge of the sundown The beauty that is to be."
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.
"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."
"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."
"Have little care that Life is brief, And less that Art is long. Success is in the silences Though Fame is in the song."