From Bard, to Bard, the frigid Caution crept, Till Declamation roar'd, while Passion slept. — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
Bards were terrible at keeping secrets. They insisted on putting them to music. — Tanya Huff Copy Share Image
O Black and unknown bards of long ago, How came your lips to touch the sacred fire? — James Weldon Johnson Copy Share Image
The will is free; Strong is the soul, and wise, and beautiful; The seeds of godlike power are in us still; Gods… — Matthew Arnold Copy Share Image
Almighty Father! let thy lowly child, Strong in his love of truth, be wisely bold,-- A patriot bard, by sycophants reviled. Let… — Ebenezer Elliott Copy Share Image
“While there was a playfulness to their caustic bards, there was also an aura of “I’ll kick your ass back to the… — Sherrilyn Kenyon Copy Share Image
Be that blind bard who on the Chian strand, By those deep sounds possessed with inward light, Beheld the Iliad and the… — Samuel Taylor Coleridge Copy Share Image
I can't make sense out of that girl," he said to the bard, "Can you?" "Never mind," Fflewddur said, "We aren't really… — Lloyd Alexander Copy Share Image
And I myself a Catholic will be, So far at least, great saint, to pray to thee. Hail, Bard triumphant! and some… — Abraham Cowley Copy Share Image
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
Among all men on the earth bards have a share of honor and reverence, because the muse has taught them songs and… — Homer Copy Share Image
The Jackass movies are honestly some of the best movies I've ever seen. I laugh so hard at them. Those guys are… — Louis C. K Copy Share Image
Richard Curtis, the writer and director of Love Actually, is brilliant at many things, but his genius, I submit, is for thrusting… — David Edelstein Copy Share Image
Let us pray that the great historic tragedy of our time may not have been enacted without instructing our whole beloved country… — Herman Melville Copy Share Image
“... It seems to me / the the great bards of the 20th century are in Publicity / those Keatses and Shelleys… — Ernesto Cardenal Copy Share Image
“Parting is such sweet sorrow, according to the bards. I wouldn’t know, myself. I never parted anyone.” He mimed ripping someone in… — Rachel Caine 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
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
Only a fool wants war, but once a war starts then it cannot be fought half-heartedly. It cannot even be fought with… — Bernard Cornwell Copy Share Image
“We know summer is the height of of being alive. We don't believe in God or the prospect of an afterlife mostly,… — Gary Shteyngart Copy Share Image
“This day,” said Gabriel, “this moment, is when you step out from the shadow of the past. Today you make your name.… — Nicholas Eames Copy Share Image
Teaching is a sacred art. This is why the noblest druid is not the one who conjures fires and smoke but the… — Kate Horsley Copy Share Image
Literature was not promulgated by a pale and emasculated critical priesthood singing their litanies in empty churches - nor is it a… — John Steinbeck 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
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
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
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
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
“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
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
“ere the hour of the twattering of bards in the twitterlitter between Druidia and the Deepsleep Sea” — James Joyce Copy Share Image
The Weird Sisters is a chronicle of real women, because it tells the truths of sisters. Eleanor Brown has written a compelling… — Min Jin Lee 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
