Bards Quotes
39 quotes by 32 authors
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Much have I traveled in the realms of gold, And many goodly states and kingdoms seen; Round many western islands have I been Which bards…
— John Keats
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O Black and unknown bards of long ago, How came your lips to touch the sacred fire?
— James Weldon Johnson
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Eyeing the traffic circulating the lobby hung with bad art. Big invasive stuff unloaded on Stanley Bard in exchange for rent. The hotel is an…
— Patti Smith
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Go ye, who rest so placidly upon the sacred Bard who had been young, and when he strung his harp was old, and had never…
— Charles Dickens
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A man should learn to detect and watch that gleam of light which flashes across his mind from within, more than the luster of the…
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
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THE POET A moody child and wildly wise Pursued the game with joyful eyes, Which chose, like meteors, their way, And rived the dark with…
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
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How have you left the ancient love That bards of old enjoyed in you! The languid strings do scarcely move! The sound is forced, the…
— William Blake
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Of all that writ, he was the wisest bard, who spoke this mighty truth- He that knew all that ever learning writ, Knew only this-that…
— Aphra Behn
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I am ashes where I once was fire, And the bard in my bosom is dead; What I loved I now merely admire, And my…
— William Shakespeare
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I'm working now on a collection of Shakespearean sonnets, about 100 of them, that I may publish if anyone's interested. My take on life is…
— Jack Prelutsky
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I tell my graduate students [at Bard College], ‘There are two ways to change the world: through policy, or through sustainable business.’ With sustainable business,…
— Eban Goodstein
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Do not let the empty cup be your first teacher of the blessings you had when it was full. Do not let a bard place…
— Alexander MacLaren
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The ancient Irish bards knew the Salmon of Knowledge as the giver of all life's wisdom. In the salmon's leap of understanding like a leap…
— Lynn Culbreath Noel
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Teaching is a sacred art. This is why the noblest druid is not the one who conjures fires and smoke but the one who brings…
— Kate Horsley
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The Weird Sisters is a chronicle of real women, because it tells the truths of sisters. Eleanor Brown has written a compelling novel about love,…
— Min Jin Lee
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Oh! blame not the bard.
— Thomas More
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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 learn from traditional…
— PJ Harvey
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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 to…
— Jeremy Robert Johnson
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Burn to be great, Pay not thy praise to lofty things alone. The plains are everlasting as the hills, The bard cannot have two pursuits;…
— Philip James Bailey
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The artist envies what the arties gains, The bard the rival bard's successful strains.
— Hesiod
Who Wrote These Bards Quotes
32 authors contributed a total of 39 Bards Quotes, led by these top contributors: