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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
Oh! blame not the bard. -- Thomas More
The Eighth Commandment was not made for bards. -- Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Bards were terrible at keeping secrets. They insisted on putting them to music. -- Tanya Huff
I paint the cot, As truth will paint it, and as bards will not. -- George Crabbe
The artist envies what the arties gains, The bard the rival bard's successful strains. -- Hesiod
It doesn't matter how you live and die, it's how the bards wrote it down. -- Terry Pratchett
O Black and unknown bards of long ago, How came your lips to touch the sacred fire? -- James Weldon Johnson
Each philosopher, each bard, each actor has only done for me, as by a delegate, what one day I can do for myself. -- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Modern storytellers are the descendants of an immense and ancient community of holy people, troubadours, bards, griots, cantadoras, cantors, traveling poets, bums, hags and crazy people. -- Clarissa Pinkola Estes
Among all men on the earth bards have a share of honor and reverence, because the muse has taught them songs and loves the race of bards. -- Homer
How have you left the ancient love That bards of old enjoyed in you! The languid strings do scarcely move! The sound is forced, the notes are few! -- William Blake
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, saints, heroes, if we will! -- Matthew Arnold
And I myself a Catholic will be, So far at least, great saint, to pray to thee. Hail, Bard triumphant! and some care bestow On us, the Poets militant below. -- Abraham Cowley
I'm working now on a collection of Shakespearean sonnets, about 100 of them, that I may publish if anyone's interested. My take on life is a little different from the bard's. -- Jack Prelutsky
The psychedelic experience is not a journey into the human unconscious, or into the ghost bards of our human civilization. It's a journey into the presence of the Gaian mind. -- Terence McKenna
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 the swelling of the voiceful sea. -- Samuel Taylor Coleridge
I've been the head of the photography program at Bard College for over 30 years, and I take that as seriously as I do my photography. My time is devoted to that too. -- Stephen Shore
The best-concerted schemes men lay for fame, Die fast away: only themselves die faster. The far-fam'd sculptor, and the laurell'd bard, Those bold insurancers of deathless fame, Supply their little feeble aids in vain. -- Robert Blair
I read a zombie story, and I have nightmares for days. But my youngest sister loves zombie stories. So when she insisted it was time for Bards and Sages to put together a zombie book, I couldn't tell her 'no.' -- Julie Ann Dawson
Let us pray that the great historic tragedy of our time may not have been enacted without instructing our whole beloved country through terror and pity; and may fulfillment verify in the end those expectations which kindle the bards of Progress and Humanity. -- Herman Melville
The earliest storytellers were magi, seers, bards, griots, shamans. They were, it would seem, old as time, and as terrifying to gaze upon as the mysteries with which they wrestled .. (they) helped the community live though one more darkness, with eyes wide open, and with hearts set alight. -- Ben Okri
The words that bore the deathless verse of Homer from bard to a group of fascinated hearers, and with whose fading sounds the poems passed beyond recall, are fixed on the printed page in a hundred tongues. They carry to a million eyes what once could reach but a hundred ears. -- Nicholas Murray Butler
Richard Curtis, the writer and director of Love Actually, is brilliant at many things, but his genius, I submit, is for thrusting characters into situations in which they feel driven to humiliate themselves. Which is why we love them, especially when it's all in the name of love. He is the Bard of Embarrassment. -- David Edelstein
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 firmament of bards and sages. Yet he dismisses without notice his thought, because it is his. In every work of genius we recognize our own rejected thoughts: they come back to us with a certain alienated majesty. -- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Josh Bard is a catcher with excellent defensive tools and someone ... whose best days are ahead of him. He's not coming off his best [offensive] season, but we still think there is some ceiling on him. He has outstanding makeup and calls a good game. [He's] a solid receiver with a plus arm, and he's going to be coming to camp with a chance to open some eyes. -- Theo Epstein
Stories ought not to be just little bits of fantasy that are used to wile away an idle hour; from the beginning of the human race stories have been used - by priests, by bards, by medicine men - as magic instruments of healing, of teaching, as a means of helping people come to terms with the fact that they continually have to face insoluble problems and unbearable realities. -- Joan Aiken
In the ancient times, bards went around singing the epics, which were storehouses of philosophy. -- Amish Tripathi
Europe has always owed to oriental genius its divine impulses. What these holy bards said, all sane men found agreeable and true. -- Ralph Waldo Emerson
And evermore the waters worship God;-- And bards and prophets tune their mystic lyres While listening to the music of the waves! -- Sarah Josepha Hale
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
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 friendship. -- Bernard Cornwell
A man should learn to detect and watch that gleam of light which flashes across his mind from within, more than the luster of the firmament of bards and sages -- Ralph Waldo Emerson
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 Appalachian nation still sings about unemployment. -- Jim Goad

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