Quotable Bard Oracle
a collage deck featuring quotes from Shakespeare’s plays
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Shakespeare’s words possess a timeless resonance — reflections on love, fate, ambition, doubt, and the intricacies of human nature that remain as compelling today as when they were first written. This deck is an invitation to engage with that enduring voice through symbolism and intuition.
The Quotable Bard Oracle is a 40-card collage deck pairing carefully selected quotations with hand-crafted visual compositions. Each card presents a fragment of language drawn from Shakespeare’s plays, reimagined through expressive analog collage artwork.
Every card becomes a space for reflection, interpretation, and imaginative exploration.
What’s Included:
40 oracle cards (standard Tarot size: 2.75 x 4.75 inches)
Professionally printed on high quality cardstock with protective UV coating
Smooth, lightweight cards designed for easy handling and shuffling
Hand-cut and torn analog collage artwork created from recycled magazines, scanned and digitized by the artist
Packaged in a custom-designed tuck box with Elizabethan motif
Complimentary PDF guidebook including:
The quote featured on each card
A keyword correspondence
Brief interpretive analysis based on the play
A suggested three-card spread
The Quotable Bard Oracle is ideal for readers, writers, performers, and seekers drawn to the poetry, drama, and psychological depth of Shakespeare’s language.
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Correspondences
All that glitters is not gold. : Promises
All the world's a stage, and all the men and women merely players. : Time
Beware the ides of March. : Signs
Brevity is the soul of wit. : Communication
Double, double, toil and trouble; Fire burn and cauldron bubble. : Magic
Et tu, Brutus? : Betrayal
Hell is empty and all the devils are here. : Fear
If music be the food of love, play on. : Senses
If you prick us, do we not bleed? : Compassion
Is this a dagger which I see before me, the handle toward my hand? : Confusion
It seems to me that yet we sleep, we dream. : Illusion
Lend me your ears. : Persuasion
Lord what fools these mortals be! : Mischief
Love all, trust a few, do wrong to none. : Advice
Love is blind. : Transformation
Love looks not with the eyes, but with the mind. : Longing
Love sought is good, but given unsought is better. : Surprise
O, beware, my lord, of jealousy! : Jealousy
Out, damned spot! out, I say! : Guilt
Parting is such sweet sorrow. : Desire
Some are born great, some achieve greatness, and some have greatness thrust upon them. : Pride
The better part of valor is discretion. : Courage
The course of true love never did run smooth. : Challenges
The lady doth protest too much, methinks. : Loyalty
The quality of mercy is not strained. : Mercy
The valiant never taste of death but once. : Death
The wheel is come full circle. : Consequences
The world's mine oyster. : Ambition
There is nothing either good or bad, but thinking makes it so. : Perception
This above all: to thine own self be true. : Integrity
To be, or not to be: that is the question. : Doubt
To sleep, perchance to dream. : Suffering
We are such stuff as dreams are made of : Vision
We know what we are, but know not what we may be. : Future
We make guilty of our disasters the sun, the moon, and the stars. : Responsibility
What a piece of work is a man : Ideals
What's done is done. : Regret
What's in a name? : Identity
What's past is prologue. : Destiny
Wherefore art thou Romeo? : Love
