A Quote by Homer

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

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Among Bards Because Earth Honor Loves Men Muse Race Reverence Share Songs Taught Them

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Homer
Greek - Poet

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

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

Tanya Huff

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

Stories ought not to be just little bits of fantasy that are used to wile away an idle hour; from the beginning of the human race stories have been used - by priests, by bards, by medicine men - as magic instruments of healing, of teaching, as a means of helping people come to terms with the fact that they continually have to face insoluble problems and unbearable realities.

Joan Aiken

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

The Eighth Commandment was not made for bards.

Samuel Taylor Coleridge

Honor the sacred. Honor the Earth, our Mother. Honor all with whom we share the Earth Walk in balance and beauty.

Robert Muller

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.