Ill Quote by William Watson

I have the instincts of a minstrel rather than those of a scrivener. There you have it. We are not of the same trade…

— John Steinbeck

Shatter the icons of slavery and fear. Replace the leer of the minstrel's burnt-cork face with a proud, serene and classic bronze of Benin.

— Dudley Randall

The way was long, the wind was cold, The Minstrel was infirm and old; His withered cheek, and tresses gray, Seemed to have know…

— Walter Scott

Breathes there the man, with soul so dead, Who never to himself hath said, This is my own, my native land! Whose heart hath…

— Walter Scott

... the open sky sits upon our senses like a sapphire crown - the Air is our robe of state - the Earth is…

— John Keats

Ethereal minstrel! pilgrim of the sky! Dost thou despise the earth where cares abound? Or, while the wings aspire, are heart and eye Both…

— William Wordsworth

“The scene in the great hall was a raucous one, a cheerful mélange of knights, minstrels, servants, disreputable-looking women, and dogs, who were dicing,…

— Sharon Kay Penman

Every lover is, in his heart, a madman, and, in his head, a minstrel.

— Neil Gaiman

O for the gentleness of old Romance, the simple planning of a minstrel's song!

— John Keats

A wandering minstrel I A thing of shreds and patches Of ballads, songs and snatches And dreamy lullaby!

— Walter Raleigh

In France, you have 900 years of romantic love going back to the troubadours and minstrels that wrote stories of Lancelot and Guinevere. You…

— Marilyn Yalom

The only ones who ever come here from your lands are the minstrels, and the lovers, and the mad. And you don't look like…

— Neil Gaiman