Back Country Poems Quotes

“Tis not the greatest singer
Who tries the loftiest themes,
He is the true joy bringer,
Who tells his simplest dreams.
He is the greatest poet,
Who will renounce all art,
And take his heart and show it
To every other heart;
Who writes no learned riddle,
But sings his simplest rune,
Takes his heart strings for a fiddle,
And plays his easiest tune

~ Sam Walter Foss (1858-1911)

[From Back Country Poems, 1892]”
― Sam Walter Foss, Back Country Poems