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
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
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
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
Such is the fate of simple Bard, On life's rough ocean luckless starr'd — Robert Burns Copy Share Image
Each philosopher, each bard, each actor has only done for me, as by a delegate, what one day I can do for… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Eyeing the traffic circulating the lobby hung with bad art. Big invasive stuff unloaded on Stanley Bard in exchange for rent. The… — Patti Smith 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 artist envies what the arties gains, The bard the rival bard's successful strains. — Hesiod 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
It doesn't matter how you live and die, it's how the bards wrote it down. — Terry Pratchett 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
All the world's a stage, and all the men and women mearly players. — William Shakespeare 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
I am a poet, bard, scop, minnesinger, trobairitz who is driven by sound and the possibilities for vocal expression, the mouthing of… — Anne Waldman Copy Share Image
Stories ought not to be just little bits of fantasy that are used to wile away an idle hour; from the beginning… — Joan Aiken 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
Much have I traveled in the realms of gold, And many goodly states and kingdoms seen; Round many western islands have I… — John Keats 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
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
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
All right, so there he is, our representative to the world, Mr. Western Civilization, in codpiece and pantyhose up there on the… — Marvin Mudrick 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
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
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
