Bards Quotes

39 quotes by 32 authors

The will is free; Strong is the soul, and wise, and beautiful; The seeds of godlike power are in us still; Gods are we, bards,… — Matthew Arnold
Be that blind bard who on the Chian strand, By those deep sounds possessed with inward light, Beheld the Iliad and the Odyssey Rise to… — Samuel Taylor Coleridge
The Eighth Commandment was not made for bards. — Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Bards of Passion and of Mirth, Ye have left your souls on earth! Have ye souls in heaven too, Double-lived in regions new? — John Keats
Literature was not promulgated by a pale and emasculated critical priesthood singing their litanies in empty churches - nor is it a game for the… — John Steinbeck
the fact that they stole their whole shtick from Woody Guthrie and the coal-mining bards. While the alternative nation meows about personal fashion angst, the… — Jim Goad
She has her own glamour, Willy lad. All poets do, all the bards and artists, all the musicians who truly take the music into their… — Emma Bull
By all means," cried the bard, his eyes lighting up. "A Fflam to the rescue! Storm the castle! Carry it by assault! Batter down the… — Lloyd Alexander
Sometimes humans hit on a moment of profundity more complete than their dim minds could comprehend, and they took that nugget of truth and dumped… — Kelley Armstrong
Bards were terrible at keeping secrets. They insisted on putting them to music. — Tanya Huff
Battle for the sake of honor may be a fine thing for bards to sing of, but it is no way to preserve one's homeland — Jacqueline Carey
A man should learn to detect and watch that gleam of light which flashes across his mind from within, more than the lustre of the… — Ralph Waldo Emerson
We know summer is the height of of being alive. We don't believe in God or the prospect of an afterlife mostly, so we know… — Gary Shteyngart
Take her to the kitchen,â€ came the order. â€œIf she lies, throw her in the cauldron." â€œHe was jesting about the cauldron, wasnâ€™t he? You… — Nalini Singh
The bards sing of love, they celebrate slaughter, they extol kings and flatter queens, but were I a poet I would write in praise of… — Bernard Cornwell
No, no," said Taran slowly, "It would be folly to think of attacking them." He smiled quickly at Fflewddur. "The bards would sing of us,"… — Lloyd Alexander
I can't make sense out of that girl," he said to the bard, "Can you?" "Never mind," Fflewddur said, "We aren't really expected to. — Lloyd Alexander
Only a fool wants war, but once a war starts then it cannot be fought half-heartedly. It cannot even be fought with regret, but must… — Bernard Cornwell
In the ancient times, bards went around singing the epics, which were storehouses of philosophy. — Amish Tripathi

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