Bards Quote by Nicholas Murray Butler

“She began to whisper something in my ear. It’s the strangest thing about poetry—you can tell it’s poetry, even if you don’t speak the…

— Neil Gaiman

“I love the writers of my thousand books. It pleases me to think how astonished old Homer, whoever he was, would be to find…

— Marilynne Robinson

“Those who have not learned to read the ancient classics in the language in which they were written must have a very imperfect knowledge…

— Henry David Thoreau

“He reaches for his pen. He yawns and puts it down and picks it up again. I shall be found dead at my desk,…

— Hilary Mantel

“Why does Homer give us descriptions so much more vivid than all the poets. Because he sees so much more around him. We speak…

— Friedrich Nietzsche

... what is great poetry, after all, but the continuation of the human voice after death?

— Erica Jong

Be that blind bard who on the Chian strand, By those deep sounds possessed with inward light, Beheld the Iliad and the Odyssey Rise…

— Samuel Taylor Coleridge

The poets are the standard bearers of language. Their work lives or dies word by word. When I write and can hear a clunky…

— Janet Fitch

Nay, the greatest wits and poets, too, cease to live; Homer, their prince, sleeps now in the same forgotten sleep as do the others.…

— Lucretius

“Ignosi bound the diadem upon his brows. Then advancing, he placed his foot upon the broad chest of his headless foe and broke out…

— H. Rider Haggard

“Yet nothing can be more certain than this: what makes a poet a poet is the fact that he sees himself surrounded by figures…

— Friedrich Nietzsche

“There are many unspeakable words, forgotten, or forbidden. Great thanks to the poets who make them all become reachable.”

— Toba Beta