Then felt I like some watcher of the skies when a new planet swims into his ken. — John Keats 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
“All brains are bards, all selves audiences to the tales of who they are.” — David McRaney 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
Such is the fate of simple Bard, On life's rough ocean luckless starr'd — Robert Burns Copy Share Image
“No matter what the bards may say, there’s no romance in dying for a man.” — Susanna Kearsley 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
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 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
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
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
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
Modern storytellers are the descendants of an immense and ancient community of holy people, troubadours, bards, griots, cantadoras, cantors, traveling poets, bums,… — Clarissa Pinkola Estes 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
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
The earliest storytellers were magi, seers, bards, griots, shamans. They were, it would seem, old as time, and as terrifying to gaze… — Ben Okri Copy Share Image
the fact that they stole their whole shtick from Woody Guthrie and the coal-mining bards. While the alternative nation meows about personal… — Jim Goad Copy Share Image
What so pure, which envious tongues will spare? Some wicked wits have libell'd all the fair, With matchless impudence they style a… — Alexander Pope Copy Share Image
I tell my graduate students [at Bard College], ‘There are two ways to change the world: through policy, or through sustainable business.’… — Eban Goodstein Copy Share Image
Do not let the empty cup be your first teacher of the blessings you had when it was full. Do not let… — Alexander MacLaren 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
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 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
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
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
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
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
“You have given us a part in a story the bards will sing to our children's children.” — Jacqueline Carey Copy Share Image
All the world's a stage, and all the men and women mearly players. — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
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
The artist envies what the arties gains, The bard the rival bard's successful strains. — Hesiod Copy Share Image
“The words of the bards come down the centuries to us, warm with living breath.” — Pádraig Pearse Copy Share Image