Of all that writ, he was the wisest bard, who spoke this mighty truth- He that knew all that ever learning writ,… — Aphra Behn Copy Share Image
How have you left the ancient love That bards of old enjoyed in you! The languid strings do scarcely move! The sound… — William Blake Copy Share Image
In the ancient times, bards went around singing the epics, which were storehouses of philosophy. — Amish Tripathi Copy Share Image
“Let you sing of us all by name, that we may live as long as the song." "All three hundred of you?"… — Rosemary Sutcliff Copy Share Image
I'm working now on a collection of Shakespearean sonnets, about 100 of them, that I may publish if anyone's interested. My take… — Jack Prelutsky Copy Share Image
The psychedelic experience is not a journey into the human unconscious, or into the ghost bards of our human civilization. It's a… — Terence McKenna Copy Share Image
Europe has always owed to oriental genius its divine impulses. What these holy bards said, all sane men found agreeable and true. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
I've been the head of the photography program at Bard College for over 30 years, and I take that as seriously as… — Stephen Shore Copy Share Image
The best-concerted schemes men lay for fame, Die fast away: only themselves die faster. The far-fam'd sculptor, and the laurell'd bard, Those… — Robert Blair Copy Share Image
Burn to be great, Pay not thy praise to lofty things alone. The plains are everlasting as the hills, The bard cannot… — Philip James Bailey Copy Share Image
There are some singer-songwriters who start out as poets. So someone like Leonard Cohen wrote and published poetry in the early 60s,… — Richard F. Thomas Copy Share Image
The ancient Irish bards knew the Salmon of Knowledge as the giver of all life's wisdom. In the salmon's leap of understanding… — Lynn Culbreath Noel Copy Share Image
What is the end of Fame? 'tis but to fill A certain portion of uncertain paper: Some liken it to climbing up… — Lord Byron Copy Share Image
By all means," cried the bard, his eyes lighting up. "A Fflam to the rescue! Storm the castle! Carry it by assault!… — Lloyd Alexander Copy Share Image
Josh Bard is a catcher with excellent defensive tools and someone ... whose best days are ahead of him. He's not coming… — Theo Epstein Copy Share Image
No, no," said Taran slowly, "It would be folly to think of attacking them." He smiled quickly at Fflewddur. "The bards would… — Lloyd Alexander Copy Share Image
THE POET A moody child and wildly wise Pursued the game with joyful eyes, Which chose, like meteors, their way, And rived… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
And so they lived many happy years, and the promised tasks were accomplished. Yet long afterward, when all had passed away into… — Lloyd Alexander Copy Share Image
The poetical tendency of the present and of the preceding century has been divided in a manner singularly curious. One loud and… — H. P. Lovecraft Copy Share Image
Go ye, who rest so placidly upon the sacred Bard who had been young, and when he strung his harp was old,… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
Yourself a newborn bard of the Holy Ghost, cast behind you all conformity, and acquaint men at first hand with Deity. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Battle for the sake of honor may be a fine thing for bards to sing of, but it is no way to… — Jacqueline Carey Copy Share Image
And evermore the waters worship God;-- And bards and prophets tune their mystic lyres While listening to the music of the waves! — Sarah Josepha Hale Copy Share Image
I am ashes where I once was fire, And the bard in my bosom is dead; What I loved I now merely… — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
“Glorious victories make fine songs, Yarvi, but inglorious ones are no worse once the bards are done with them. Glorious defeats, meanwhile,… — Joe Abercrombie Copy Share Image
“ere the hour of the twattering of bards in the twitterlitter between Druidia and the Deepsleep Sea” — James Joyce Copy Share Image
For this present, hard Is the fortune of the bard, Born out of time; All his accomplishment, From Nature's utmost treasure spent,… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Bards of Passion and of Mirth, Ye have left your souls on earth! Have ye souls in heaven too, Double-lived in regions… — John Keats Copy Share Image
A man should learn to detect and watch that gleam of light which flashes across his mind from within, more than the… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
The bards sing of love, they celebrate slaughter, they extol kings and flatter queens, but were I a poet I would write… — Bernard Cornwell Copy Share Image
Great is the art, Great be the manners, of the bard. He shall not his brain encumber With the coil of rhythm… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
I didn't know folk music growing up, no. It's something I've come to study, really, because I think there's so much to… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Sometimes humans hit on a moment of profundity more complete than their dim minds could comprehend, and they took that nugget of… — Kelley Armstrong Copy Share Image
Take her to the kitchen,” came the order. “If she lies, throw her in the cauldron." “He was jesting about the cauldron,… — Nalini Singh Copy Share Image
Celtic civilization was tribal, but by no means savage or uncultivated. People who regarded the theft of a harp from a bard… — Robertson Davies Copy Share Image
With this blistering salvo of poetic gutshots Lawson has proven himself Bizarro’s true bard, its mad laureate. Switching from dark whimsy to… — Jeremy Robert Johnson Copy Share Image
Entirely incidentally, a little-known fact about Shakespeare is that his father moved to Stratford-upon-Avon from a nearby village shortly before his son's… — Bill Bryson Copy Share Image
The words that bore the deathless verse of Homer from bard to a group of fascinated hearers, and with whose fading sounds… — Nicholas Murray Butler Copy Share Image
She has her own glamour, Willy lad. All poets do, all the bards and artists, all the musicians who truly take the… — Emma Bull Copy Share Image
This siren, this goat-footed bard, this half human visitor to our age the hag-ridden and enchanted woods of Celtic antiquity. One catches… — John Maynard Keynes Copy Share Image