"The river is moving. The blackbird must be…" — Wallace Stevens

More Blackbird Quotes

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• Because of her, he had learned to look for the birds - the darting flight of wild canaries (yellow sun… — Terry Kay
• Why do I write historical fiction? Johnny Tremain, The Witch of Blackbird Pond, Island of the Blue Dolphins-that's why. I'll… — Unknown Author
• The song of thrush and blackbird, joy that falls so gently on the ears to celebrate another day of life… — John McLeod
• The devil's script sells you the heart of a blackbird. — Elliott Smith
• We are nature. We are nature seeing nature. The red-winged blackbird flies in us. — Susan Griffin
• The nightingale has a lyre of gold, The lark's is a clarion call, And the blackbird plays but a boxwood… — William Ernest Henley
• O Blackbird! sing me something well: While all the neighbors shoot thee round, I keep smooth plats of fruitful ground,… — Alfred Lord Tennyson
• I am a closet birdwatcher. I can identify Southern African species, but it irks me I can barely tell a… — Wilbur Smith
• The bowed head, the buried face. She is silent, she will never speak, never forgive, never reach a hand, never… — John Fowles
• maybe we try too hard to be remembered, waking to the glowing yellow disc in ignorance, swearing that today will… — Naomi Shihab Nye
• I can walk into someone's house, kiss their wife, sit down at their table, and eat their dinner. I can… — Holly Black
• I know noble accents And lucid, inescapable rhythms; But I know, too, That the blackbird is involved In what I… — Wallace Stevens

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