Such is the fate of simple Bard, On life's rough ocean…

“With a good captain, a rough ocean turns into a calm lake; with a bad captain, a calm lake turns into a rough ocean!”

— Mehmet Murat ildan

She has her own glamour, Willy lad. All poets do, all the bards and artists, all the musicians who truly take the music into…

— Emma Bull

In the ancient times, bards went around singing the epics, which were storehouses of philosophy.

— Amish Tripathi

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 bold insurancers…

— Robert Blair

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

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

— Jose Marti

the fact that they stole their whole shtick from Woody Guthrie and the coal-mining bards. While the alternative nation meows about personal fashion angst,…

— Jim Goad

By all means," cried the bard, his eyes lighting up. "A Fflam to the rescue! Storm the castle! Carry it by assault! Batter down…

— Lloyd Alexander

The will is free; Strong is the soul, and wise, and beautiful; The seeds of godlike power are in us still; Gods are we,…

— Matthew Arnold

Literature was not promulgated by a pale and emasculated critical priesthood singing their litanies in empty churches - nor is it a game for…

— John Steinbeck

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

“We know summer is the height of of being alive. We don't believe in God or the prospect of an afterlife mostly, so we…

— Gary Shteyngart

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

“I mean, I know you’re a scribe and all, but you were at point blank range, Johnny. A child could have made that shot.…

— Richard Nell

The earliest storytellers were magi, seers, bards, griots, shamans. They were, it would seem, old as time, and as terrifying to gaze upon as…

— Ben Okri