The devil's script sells you the heart of 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

The river is moving. The blackbird must be flying.

— Wallace Stevens

Morning has broken Like the first morning. Blackbird has spoken Like the first bird.

— Eleanor Farjeon

I am a closet birdwatcher. I can identify Southern African species, but it irks me I can barely tell a jay from a blackbird…

— Wilbur Smith

'Blackbird' is the only one I've ever wanted to redo. It just haunted me, this play. There was a sense of unfinished business because…

— Joe Mantello

He doesn't know the world at all who stays in his nest and doesn't go out. He doesn't know what birds know best, nor…

— Poem Written By 12/13 Yr Old In Concentration Camp

“Everyone knows a white blackbird is nothing more than a ghost, a shadow of what it ought to be.”

— Alice Hoffman

“I couldn't help but suspect something he'd seen or encountered had changed his view of what had happened between them. It had somehow set…

— Marisha Pessl

'Blackbird' is a really beautiful song, and I actually recently started trying to learn it, and it's beautiful.

— Himesh Patel

“Pack up all my care and woe, blackbird, bye-bye”

— Stephen King

“Think what you will, blackbird, for I'll be here long after thee's gone they course and died thy death.”

— Stephen King

“Blackbird singing in the dead of night Take these broken wings and learn to fly All your life You were only waiting for this…

— The Beatles

“King Dan sat on his stallion fierce Swords did slice and spears did pierce But in a tree upon the field Perched a small,…

— Shannon Hale

“When she had fallen asleep on me, and the saw in the yard was quiet, and a blackbird was singing as the colors of…

— Bernhard Schlink

“Once upon a time there was a little blackbird, pushed out of the nest, unwanted.”

— Amy Harmon