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
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
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
“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
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
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
“ere the hour of the twattering of bards in the twitterlitter between Druidia and the Deepsleep Sea” — James Joyce 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
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
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
By all means," cried the bard, his eyes lighting up. "A Fflam to the rescue! Storm the castle! Carry it by assault!… — Lloyd Alexander 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
“... It seems to me / the the great bards of the 20th century are in Publicity / those Keatses and Shelleys… — Ernesto Cardenal 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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
“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
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
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
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'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
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
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
“So with Dr. Johnson and John Stuart Mill, and Spencer, and William Shakespeare, and Chaucer, and Milton, and John Bunyan, and others… — Richard Llewellyn 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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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