Bards Quote by Samuel Johnson

...the temptation, which consisted of a single word written on the cemetary of the defeated: Sleep.

— Arthur Koestler

She had awakened something in him that had slumbered far too long. Not only did he feel passion, he felt the return of hope.

— Pat Conroy

“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

“As night falls, the weary creatures of earth, And the woods and the frothing seas, Grow calm like the stars as they circle their…

— Marc Weissbluth

“I regained my couch, but never thought of sleep. Till morning dawned I was tossed on a buoyant but unquiet sea, where billows of…

— Charlotte Brontë

How undisturbed, the sleep of the foolish.

— Philip K. Dick

At night the passion came, Like the fierce fiend of a distempered dream, And shook him from his rest, and led him forth Into…

— Percy Bysshe Shelley

By all means," cried the bard, his eyes lighting up. "A Fflam to the rescue! Storm the castle! Carry it by assault! Batter down…

— Lloyd Alexander

“Drear ritual turned its wheel. The ferment of the heart, within these walls, was mocked by every length of sleeping shadow. The passions, no…

— Mervyn Peake

“Such moments passed and the wasting fires of lust sprang up again. The verses passed from his lips and the inarticulate cries and the…

— James Joyce

“Till now the evening had been calm, but suddenly the forest grew restless. As I ascended the path out of the river bottom, I…

— Barry Grant

“On the day of the dead, when the year too dies, Must the youngest open the oldest hills Through the door of the birds,…

— Susan Cooper