Bard Quotes - page 2

A bard here dwelt, more fat than bard becomes Who void of envy, guile and lust of gain, On virtue still and nature's pleasing themes Poured forth his unpremeditated strain. (James Thomson (poet))
Many brave men lived before Agamemnon, but all are weighed down in unending night, unwept and unknown, because they lacked a sacred bard. View quote
Horace
As when in harp and song adept, a bard Unlab'ring strains the chord to a new lyre. View quote
Homer
This myth filter was necessary. The ship logs could not tell it rightly nor could any flatfooted prose. And the deeds were too bright to be viewed direct. They could only be sung by a bard gone blind from viewing suns that were suns. View quote
R. A. Lafferty
But where repose the all Etruscan three- Dante, and Petrarch, and, scarce less than they, The Bard of Prose, creative Spirit! he Of the Hundred Tales of Love? And have their Country's Marbles nought to say? Could not her quarries furnish forth one bust? Did they not to her breast their filial earth entrust? Ungrateful Florence! Dante sleeps afar, Like Scipio, buried by the upbraiding shore, and the crown Which Petrarch's laureate brow supremely wore, Upon a far and foreign soil had grown, His Life, his Fame, his Grave, though rifled-not thine own. View quote
Petrarch
Ossian, sublimest, simplest bard of all, Whom English infidels Macpherson call. View quote
James Macpherson