Bards Quotes

39 quotes by 32 authors

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
O Black and unknown bards of long ago, How came your lips to touch the sacred fire? — James Weldon Johnson
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
I tell my graduate students [at Bard College], â€˜There are two ways to change the world: through policy, or through sustainable business.â€™ With sustainable business,… — Eban Goodstein
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
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
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
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
Oh! blame not the bard. — Thomas More
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
With this blistering salvo of poetic gutshots Lawson has proven himself Bizarroâ€™s true bard, its mad laureate. Switching from dark whimsy to retina-blast shock to… — Jeremy Robert Johnson
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
The artist envies what the arties gains, The bard the rival bard's successful strains. — Hesiod

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