Quote by James Joyce

“The world is filled with people and with beasts. Some are one, some the other. —Jarah-Och-Whum, ninth-century Imaryian bard”

— Herb J. Smith II

“... WHEN ONE LOOKS INTO THE DARKNESS THERE IS ALWAYS SOMETHING THERE... Far-off, most secret, and inviolate Rose, Enfold me in my hour of…

— William Butler Yeats

“Between the Pedestals of Night and Morning Between red death and radiant desire With not one sound of triumph or of warning Stands the…

— James Elroy Flecker

“To what a world does the illustrious bard carry me! To wander over pathless wilds, surrounded by impetuous whirlwinds, where, by the feeble light…

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

“The words of the bards come down the centuries to us, warm with living breath.”

— Pádraig Pearse

How have you left the ancient love That bards of old enjoyed in you! The languid strings do scarcely move! The sound is forced,…

— William Blake

“And from then on I bathed in the Poem Of the Sea, infused with stars and lactescent, Devouring the green azure where, like a…

— Anonymous

“O, gentle Bard, if thou couldst but glimpse our digital age! We set words in light called ‘blogs,’ Which are, alas, neither fens nor…

— Stewart Stafford

“...it was reassuring to know that far away, whales swam untroubled in Baltic waters and monks in arcane time zones chanted ceaselessly for the…

— Donna Tartt

“Looking up occasionally to see rare cars crossing the high bridge and wondering what they'd see on this drear foggy night if they knew…

— Jack Kerouac

Suddenly the full long wail of a ship's horn surged through the open window and flooded the dim room - a cry of boundless,…

— Yukio Mishima

“This night shalt thou know the favour of the Gods, and behold on Parnassus those dreams which the Gods have through ages sent to…

— H.P. Lovecraft