Bards Quotes
Bards Quote of the day
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!
From Bard, to Bard, the frigid Caution crept, Till Declamation roar'd, while Passion slept.
O Black and unknown bards of long ago, How came your lips to touch the sacred fire?
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.
Of all that writ, he was the wisest bard, who spoke this mighty truth- He that knew all that ever learning writ, Knew only this-that he knew nothing yet.
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.
Bards of Passion and of Mirth, Ye have left your souls on earth! Have ye souls in heaven too, Double-lived in regions new?
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!
And evermore the waters worship God;-- And bards and prophets tune their mystic lyres While listening to the music of the waves!
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.
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.
Europe has always owed to oriental genius its divine impulses. What these holy bards said, all sane men found agreeable and true.
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.