Blackbird Quotes
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Beside, 't is known he could speak Greek As naturally as pigs squeak; That Latin was no more difficile Than to a blackbird 't is to whistle.
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More Blackbird Quotes
A slender young blackbird built in a thorn-tree: A spruce little fellow as ever could be; His bill was so yellow, his feathers so black, So long was his tail, and so glossy his back, That good Mrs. B., who sat hatching her eggs, And only just left them to stretch her poor legs, And pick for a minute the worm she preferred, Thought there never was seen such a beautiful bird.
dinah craik— The Blackbird and the Rooks; reported in Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations (1922), p. 71.
I do not know which to prefer, The beauty of inflections Or the beauty of innuendoes, The blackbird whistling or just after.
wallace stevens— 1923 Harmonium,'ThirteenWays of Looking At A Blackbird', pt.5.
I know noble accents And lucid, inescapable rhythms; But I know, too, That the blackbird is involved In what I know.
wallace stevens— 1923 Harmonium,'ThirteenWays of Looking At A Blackbird', pt.8.
And for that minute a blackbird sang Close by, and round him, mistier, Farther and farther, all the birds Of Oxfordshire and Gloucestershire.
— 1915 'Adlestrop'.
Among twenty snowy mountains, The only moving thing Was the eye of the blackbird .
wallace stevens— "Thirteen Ways of Looking at a Blackbird" - Full text online"The Blackbird Is Flying, The Children Must Be Writing" Sam Swope (an essay on the use of this poem as a teaching tool).
A man and a woman Are one . A man and a woman and a blackbird Are one.
wallace stevens— "Thirteen Ways of Looking at a Blackbird"
I do not know which to prefer, The beauty of inflections Or the beauty of innuendoes, The blackbird whistling Or just after.
wallace stevens— "Thirteen Ways of Looking at a Blackbird"
O thin men of Haddam, Why do you imagine golden birds? Do you not see how the blackbird Walks around the feet Of the women about you?
wallace stevens— "Thirteen Ways of Looking at a Blackbird"
I know noble accents And lucid, inescapable rhythms; But I know, too, That the blackbird is involved In what I know.
wallace stevens— "Thirteen Ways of Looking at a Blackbird"
It was evening all afternoon. It was snowing And it was going to snow. The blackbird sat In the cedar-limbs.
wallace stevens— "Thirteen Ways of Looking at a Blackbird"
The nightingale has a lyre of gold, The lark's is a clarion call, And the blackbird plays but a boxwood flute, But I love him best of all. For his song is all the joy of life, And we in the mad spring weather, We two have listened till he sang Our hearts and lips together.
— W. E. Henley, Echoes. (Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations)
The birds have ceased their songs, All save the blackbird, that from yon tall ash, 'Mid Pinkie's greenery, from his mellow throat, In adoration of the setting sun, Chants forth his evening hymn.
David Macbeth Moir— David Macbeth Moir, An Evening Sketch; reported in Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations (1922), p. 71.
Among twenty snowy mountains, The only moving thing Was the eye of the blackbird.
— Wallace Stevens, "Thirteen Ways of Looking at a Blackbird" in Harmonium (1923) · Full text online · "The Blackbird Is Flying, The Children Must Be Writing" Sam Swope (an essay on the use of this poem as a teaching tool).
A man and a woman Are one. A man and a woman and a blackbird Are one.
wallace stevens— "Thirteen Ways of Looking at a Blackbird" in Harmonium (1923).
blackbird singing in the dead of night Take these broken wings and learn to fly . All your life You were only waiting for this moment to arise.
— Paul McCartney, in Blackbird, on the Beatles album The Beatles (The White Album) (1968).
O blackbird! sing me something well: While all the neighbors shoot thee round, I keep smooth plats of fruitful ground, Where thou may'st warble, eat and dwell.
— Alfred Tennyson, The Blackbird; reported in Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations (1922), p. 71
Tell Billie for me... bye-bye, blackbird.
— Who: John Dillinger (Johnny Depp)
— Source: Public Enemies
— Note: Dillinger said this to Charles Winstead, who has just fatally shot him. Winstead later related the message to Billie Forchette, for whom it was intended.
