A Quote by Hesiod

The artist envies what the arties gains, The bard the rival bard's successful strains. — © Hesiod
The artist envies what the arties gains, The bard the rival bard's successful strains.

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Hesiod
Greek - Poet
800 BC - 720 BC
From Bard, to Bard, the frigid Caution crept, Till Declamation roar'd, while Passion slept.
Entirely incidentally, a little-known fact about Shakespeare is that his father moved to Stratford-upon-Avon from a nearby village shortly before his son's birth. Had he not done so, the Bard of Avon would instead be known as the rather less ringing Bard of Snitterfield.
I'm probably the most successful Celtic bard of my generation, who projected this style and this image and this casketful of magical songs all around the world.
Oh! blame not the bard.
Poetry is the work of the bard and of the people who inspire him.
A bard whom there were none to praise, And very few to read.
Such is the fate of simple Bard, On life's rough ocean luckless starr'd
I became a really good student at Bard and I fell in love with learning.
The first game I actually bought myself with my own money was 'The Bard's Tale.'
The appellation of a Scottish Bard is by far my highest pride; to continue to deserve it is my most exalted ambition.
I have felt at times with groups of children that I was really being what every poet would like to be - a bard in the old sense.
I got my GED my senior year and ended up taking community college classes before I transferred to Bard.
Yourself a newborn bard of the Holy Ghost, cast behind you all conformity, and acquaint men at first hand with Deity.
For this present, hard Is the fortune of the bard, Born out of time; All his accomplishment, From Nature's utmost treasure spent, Booteth not him.
No, I won't ever write another 'Lily Bard.' I said everything I had to say about Lily.
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.
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