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)

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

    “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)