Blackbird

Famous quotes containing the word blackbird:

    “Where the blackbird sings the latest,
    Where the hawthorn blooms the sweetest,
    Where the nestlings chirp and flee,
    That’s the way for Billy and me.”
    —James Hogg Hoffmann (1770–1835)

    “It was evening all afternoon.
    It was snowing
    And it was going to snow.
    The blackbird sat
    In the cedar limbs.”
    —Wallace Stevens (1879–1955)

    “But I know, too,
    That the blackbird is involved
    In what I know.”
    —Wallace Stevens (1879–1955)