Black Sparrow

Famous quotes containing the words black and/or sparrow:

“The wings of Time are black and white,
Pied with morning and with night.”
—Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)

“One sparrow is worth a thousand gulls,
When it sings. The gull sits on chimney-tops.
He mocks the guinea, challenges
The crow, inciting various modes.
The sparrow requites one, without intent.”
—Wallace Stevens (1879–1955)