Bards Quotes - Page 2

• Then felt I like some watcher of the skies when a new planet swims into his ken.

  John Keats

  Sky, Space, Swim

  "On First Looking into Chapman's Homer" l. 9 (1817)

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• Much have I traveled in the realms of gold, and many goodly states and kingdoms seen.

  John Keats

  Travel, America, Gold

  'On First Looking into Chapman's Homer' (1817)

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• 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

  Ocean, Water, Listening

  Sarah Josepha Hale (1850). “Dictionary of poetical quotations”, p.388

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• The Eighth Commandment was not made for bards.

  Samuel Taylor Coleridge

  Made, Commandments

  Samuel Taylor Coleridge (1856). “The Complete Works of Samuel Taylor Coleridge: With an Introductory Essay Upon His Philosophical and Theological Opinions”, p.329

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• Yourself a newborn bard of the Holy Ghost, cast behind you all conformity, and acquaint men at first hand with Deity.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Men, Hands, Firsts

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1838). “An Address Delivered Before the Senior Class in Divinity College, Cambridge, Sunday Evening, 15 July, 1838”, p.27

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• 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

  Men, Light, Self Reliance

  1841 Essays: First Series,'Self-Reliance'.

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• No, no," said Taran slowly, "It would be folly to think of attacking them." He smiled quickly at Fflewddur. "The bards would sing of us," he admitted, "but we'd be in no position to appreciate it.

  Lloyd Alexander

  Thinking, Appreciate, Would Be

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• 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

  Eye, Makeup, Thinking

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• Do not let the empty cup be your first teacher of the blessings you had when it was full. Do not let a bard place here and there in the bed destroy your rest. Seek, as a plain duty, to cultivate a buoyant, joyous sense of the crowded kindnesses of God in your daily life.

  Alexander MacLaren

  Thank You, Teacher, Kindness

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• I paint the cot, As truth will paint it, and as bards will not.

  George Crabbe

  Paint

  'The Village' (1783) bk. 1, l. 53

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• 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

  Kings, Queens, Writing

  Bernard Cornwell (1997). “The Winter King: A Novel of Arthur”, p.242, Macmillan

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• Almighty Father! let thy lowly child,
  Strong in his love of truth, be wisely bold,--
  A patriot bard, by sycophants reviled.
  Let him live usefully, and not die old!

  Ebenezer Elliott

  Strong, Prayer, Children

  Ebenezer Elliott, Edwin Elliott “The Poetical Works”, Georg Olms Verlag

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• I can't make sense out of that girl," he said to the bard, "Can you?" "Never mind," Fflewddur said, "We aren't really expected to.

  Lloyd Alexander

  Girl, Mind, Said

  Lloyd Alexander (2014). “The Book of Three: The Chronicles of Prydain”, p.74, Usborne Publishing Ltd

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• Only a fool wants war, but once a war starts then it cannot be fought half-heartedly. It cannot even be fought with regret, but must be waged with a savage joy in defeating the enemy, and it is that savage joy that inspires our bards to write their greatest songs about love and war.

  Bernard Cornwell

  Love, Song, Regret

  Bernard Cornwell (1999). “Excalibur: A Novel of Arthur”, p.199, Macmillan

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• The poetical tendency of the present and of the preceding century has been divided in a manner singularly curious. One loud and conspicuous faction of bards, giving way to the corrupt influences of a decaying general culture, seems to have abandoned all the properties of versification and reason in its mad scramble after sensational novelty; whilst the other and quieter school constituting a more logical evolution from the poesy of the Georgian period, demands an accuracy of rhyme and metre unknown even to the polished artists of the age of Pope.

  H. P. Lovecraft

  School, Artist, Mad

  "The Allowable Rhyme". Book by H. P. Lovecraft, 1915.

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• 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

  One Day, Actors, Done

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1983). “Essays and Lectures”, p.67, Library of America

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• What so pure, which envious tongues will spare?
  Some wicked wits have libell'd all the fair,
  With matchless impudence they style a wife,
  The dear-bought curse, and lawful plague of life;
  A bosom serpent, a domestic evil,
  A night invasion, and a mid-day devil;
  Let not the wise these sland'rous words regard,
  But curse the bones of ev'ry living bard.

  Alexander Pope

  Wise, Night, Evil

  Alexander Pope (1839). “The Poetical Works of A. Pope, Esq: With an Account of the Life and Writings of the Author”, p.221

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• The genuine remains of Ossian, or those ancient poems which bear his name, though of less fame and extent, are, in many respects,of the same stamp with the Iliad itself. He asserts the dignity of the bard no less than Homer, and in his era, we hear of no other priest than he.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Names, Poetry, Eras

  Henry David Thoreau (2016). “A Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers”, p.244, Xist Publishing

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• Take her to the kitchen,” came the order. “If she lies, throw her in the cauldron." “He was jesting about the cauldron, wasn’t he? You cannot have a cauldron big enough for a person?” Bard halted, sighed, looked at her with those wide, liquid eyes.“We,” he said, “have knives.

  Nalini Singh

  Lying, Eye, Order

  Nalini Singh (2016). “Royal House of Shadows: Part 10 of 12”, p.18, Harlequin

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• We know summer is the height of of being alive. We don't believe in God or the prospect of an afterlife mostly, so we know that we're only given eighty summers or so per lifetime, and each one has to be better then the last, has to encompass a trip to that arts center up at Bard, a seemingly mellow game of badminton over at some yahoo's Vermont cottage, and a cool, wet, slightly dangerous kayak trip down an unforgiving river. Otherwise, how would you know that you have lived your summertime best? What is you missed out on some morsel of shaded nirvana?

  Gary Shteyngart

  Summer, Art, Believe

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• 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

  Heart, Eye, Community

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• 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

  Photography, College, Years

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• Celtic civilization was tribal, but by no means savage or uncultivated. People who regarded the theft of a harp from a bard as a crime second only to an attack on the tribal chieftain cannot be regarded as wanting in cultivated feeling.

  Robertson Davies

  Mean, Civilization, People

  Robertson Davies, Surridge, Jennifer (1997). “Happy Alchemy: Writings on the Theatre and Other Lively Arts”, M&S

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• And so they lived many happy years, and the promised tasks were accomplished. Yet long afterward, when all had passed away into distant memory, there were many who wondered whether King Taran, Queen Eilonwy, and their companions had indeed walked the earth, or whether they had been no more than dreams in a tale set down to beguile children. And, in time, only the bards knew the truth of it.

  Lloyd Alexander

  Dream, Queens, Kings

  Lloyd Alexander (2006). “The High King”, p.248, Macmillan

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• The Weird Sisters is a chronicle of real women, because it tells the truths of sisters. Eleanor Brown has written a compelling novel about love, despair and birth order—the themes the Bard himself had claimed and burnished.

  Min Jin Lee

  Real, Order, Despair

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