Quotes About Bardic

To use C. S. Lewis's distinction, perhaps we could even say that for the evangelistic youth minister, it's about truth; for the bardic youth minister, it's about meaning. Both approaches are necessary and appropriate. But they are different and depend on the context.

all three Bardic Talents: the Gift, the Skill, and the Creativity.

I think of myself as a poet. I grew up with poetic influences - what I know from my background is the bardic poetry, which came down through oral tradition.

Bardic oaths weren't made to Shkoder, they were just made.

IN PERSIA I SAW that poetry is meant to be set to music & chanted or sung--for one reason alone--because it works. A right combination of image & tune plunges the audience into a hal (something between emotional/aesthetic mood & trance of hyperawareness), outbursts of weeping, fits of dancing--measurable physical response to art. For us the link between poetry & body died with the bardic era--we read under the influence of a cartesian anaesthetic gas.

Whitman will always be a strange and unwonted figure among his country's poets, and among English poets generally: a cropping out again, after so many centuries, of the old bardic prophetic strain.