Famous quotes containing the words bard and/or poetry:
“A bard whom there were none to praise,
And very few to read.”
—Hartley Coleridge (1796–1849)
“The science of Humboldt is one thing, poetry is another thing. The poet to-day, notwithstanding all the discoveries of science, and the accumulated learning of mankind, enjoys no advantage over Homer.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)