Yourself a newborn bard of the Holy Ghost, cast behind you…

Well, the reason that I teach at Bard is because it's a largely avant-garde program.

— Kelly Reichardt

With this blistering salvo of poetic gutshots Lawson has proven himself Bizarro’s true bard, its mad laureate. Switching from dark whimsy to retina-blast shock…

— Jeremy Robert Johnson

Great is the art, Great be the manners, of the bard. He shall not his brain encumber With the coil of rhythm and number;…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

An infinite number of monkeys with an infinite number of typewriters might be able to write the complete works of William Shakespeare but the…

— Julia Hartley-Brewer

The appellation of a Scottish Bard is by far my highest pride; to continue to deserve it is my most exalted ambition.

— Robert Burns

I went to Bard College, which was a really interesting synthesis of a hippie school and a serious academic institution. It was really the…

— Adam Conover

“The world is filled with people and with beasts. Some are one, some the other. —Jarah-Och-Whum, ninth-century Imaryian bard”

— Herb J. Smith II

Poetry is the work of the bard and of the people who inspire him.

— Jose Marti

This siren, this goat-footed bard, this half human visitor to our age the hag-ridden and enchanted woods of Celtic antiquity. One catches in his…

— John Maynard Keynes

Go ye, who rest so placidly upon the sacred Bard who had been young, and when he strung his harp was old, and had…

— Charles Dickens

“some of the Bard’s feistiest and most loquacious heroines, including Beatrice in Much Ado about Nothing, ceased to have any lines after their dramatically…

— Rebecca Traister

Of all that writ, he was the wisest bard, who spoke this mighty truth- He that knew all that ever learning writ, Knew only…

— Aphra Behn

“Happy the bard, (if that fair name belong To him that blends no fable with his song) Whose lines uniting, by an honest art,…

— William Cowper

“The night draws to an end, the dream dims in the pale silver of awakening. Kruppe ceases, weary beyond reason. Sweat drips down the…

— Steven Erikson

“A king is a king, but a bard is the heart and soul of the people; he is their life in song, and the…

— Stephen R. Lawhead