Quotes About Bards

#1. 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

#2. 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

#3. We are what ballads are written of, what bards sing of. We are epic, you and I.

Samantha Garman

#4. Glorious victories make fine songs, Yarvi, but inglorious ones are no worse once the bards are done with them. Glorious defeats, meanwhile, are just defeats.

Joe Abercrombie

#5. 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

#6. 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

#7. A society that has no respect, no regard for its bards, its historians, its storytellers, is a society in steep decline, a society that has lost its very soul and may never find its way.

Laurence Overmire

#8. While there was a playfulness to their caustic bards, there was also an aura of "I'll kick your ass back to the Steel Age if you so much as breathe my air the wrong way."' (Alix)

Sherrilyn Kenyon

#9. If the bards of old the true has told
The sirens have raven hair.
But over the earth since art had birth,
They paint the angels fair.

L.M. Montgomery

#10. Ere the hour of the twattering of bards in the twitterlitter between Druidia and the Deepsleep Sea

James Joyce

#11. Know'st thou not there is but one theme for ever-enduring bards? And that is the theme of War, the fortune of battles, The making of perfect soldiers.

Walt Whitman

#12. You have given us a part in a story the bards will sing to our children's children.

Jacqueline Carey

#13. All brains are bards, all selves audiences to the tales of who they are.

David McRaney

#14. No matter what the bards may say, there's no romance in dying for a man.

Susanna Kearsley

#15. The divine bards are the friends of my virtue, of my intellect, of my strength. They admonish me that the gleams which flash across my mind are not mine, but God's; they had the like, and were not disobedient to the heavenly vision

Ralph Waldo Emerson

#16. Sometimes humans hit on a moment of profundity more complete than their dim minds could comprehend, and they took that nugget of truth and dumped it in the refuse for the bards and the poets to find, and mangle into yodeling paeans of love.

Kelley Armstrong

#17. Bards write them because they can't hold them back. Sadness has got to flow out or it gets stuck and turns bitter." Tyne

Jonathan Renshaw

#18. The words of the bards come down the centuries to us, warm with living breath.

Padraig Pearse

#19. Bards sing songs and act girly. Thus, they're kind of useless in a fight, but make good support characters. Kind of half wizard half healer with a bit of skills master and warrior thrown in. If you want to be a super famous rock star in the Middle Ages, but suck at fighting, play a Bard.

David Dostaler

#20. 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

#21. 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

#22. 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

#23. 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

#24. 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

#25. 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

#26. 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

#27. I always hated...all sad songs. I thought they made happy people miserable. Now I think I understand them better. Bards write them because they can't hold them back. Sadness has got to flow out or it gets stuck and turns bitter.

Jonathan Renshaw

#28. In the ancient times, bards went around singing the epics, which were storehouses of philosophy.

Amish Tripathi

#29. The Eighth Commandment was not made for bards.

Samuel Taylor Coleridge

#30. The ancient Irish bards knew the Salmon of Knowledge as the giver of all life's wisdom. In the salmon's leap of understanding like a leap of faith, we can see ourselves "in our element," immersed in the river of life. The cycle of the salmon's journey reminds us that all rivers flow to the same sea.

Lynn Culbreath Noel

#31. 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

#32. Bards don't believe in goodbyes - we know that the roads we walk are winding, and we generally tend to come back to people and places we've known and been before, and often at just the right time." I smiled. "We'll meet again.

Sean Gibson

#33. Parting is such sweet sorrow, according to the bards. I wouldn't know, myself. I never parted anyone." He mimed ripping someone in half, then got an odd expression on his face. "Well. Just the one time, really. Doesn't count.

Rachel Caine

#34. That was the trouble with pride, and courage, and all those clench-jawed virtues bards love to harp on. The more you have, the more likely you are to end up bottom in a pile of dead men.

Joe Abercrombie

#35. It seems to me / the the great bards of the 20th century are in Publicity / those Keatses and Shelleys singing the Colgate smile / Cosmic Coca-Cola, the pause the refreshes, / the make of car that will take us to the land of happiness.

Ernesto Cardenal

#36. It doesn't matter how you live and die, it's how the bards wrote it down.

Terry Pratchett

#37. Know ye not then the Riddling of the Bards?
Confusion, and illusion, and relation,
Elusion, and occasion, and evasion?

Alfred Tennyson

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

George Crabbe

#39. She did come from a family of bards, Jake," Atticus said. "Beards?" Dan asked. "Bards," Atticus said with a snort of laughter. "Poets. The learned scholars of Ireland." "I bet they had beards, though," Dan said, and Atticus laughed and threw an eraser at him. "The

Jude Watson

#40. I am not the sort of person about whom stories are told. Those of humble birth suffer their heartbreaks and celebrate their triumphs unnoticed by the bards, leaving no trave in the fables of their time.

Elizabeth Blackwell

#41. 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

#42. Bards were terrible at keeping secrets. They insisted on putting them to music.

Tanya Huff

#43. O black and unknown bards of long ago, How came your lips to touch the sacred fire?

James Weldon Johnson

#44. 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

#45. 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

#46. And do all Hell-Bards waddle like a duck, or is it just you?

Susan Dennard

#47. Poetry is the work of the bard and of the people who inspire him.

Jose Marti

#48. From Bard, to Bard, the frigid Caution crept,
Till Declamation roar'd, while Passion slept.

Samuel Johnson