“ The cry of a young raven is nothing but the natural cry of a creature, but your cry, if it be sincere, is the result of a work of grace in your heart. ”
- Charles Haddon Spurgeon- Copy
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“ Grandmother, family-proud and so of house, with hob black-leaded, glistening like a raven's wings and brass like gold untarnished. ”
- Brian Harris- Copy
- 2.3K
“ And He that doth the ravens feed, Yea, providently caters for the sparrow, Be comfort to my age. ”
- William Shakespeare- Copy
- 3.7K
“ Death makes angels of us all and gives us wings where we had shoulders smooth as raven's claws. ”
- Jim Morrison- Copy
- 3.5K
“ That Raven on yon left-hand oak (Curse on his ill-betiding croak) Bodes me no good. ”
- John Gay- Copy
- 3.1K
“ Did ever raven sing so like a lark That gives sweet tidings of the sun's uprise? ”
- William Shakespeare- Copy
- 674
“ The raven himself is hoarse That croaks the fatal entrance of Duncan Under my battlements. ”
- William Shakespeare- Copy
- 87
“ Thou said'st — O, it comes o'er my memory As doth the raven o'er the infected house, Boding to all! — He had my handkerchief. ”
- William Shakespeare- Copy
- 1.3K
“ Does wisdom perhaps appear on the earth as a raven which is inspired by the smell of carrion? ”
- Friedrich Nietzsche- Copy
- 3.6K
“ Bright Eyes, Light Eyes! Daughter of a Fay! I had not been a married wife a twelvemonth and a day, I had not nursed my little one a month upon my knee, When down among the blue bell banks rose elfins three times three: hey griped me by the raven hair, I could not cry for fear, They put a hempen rope around my waist and dragged me here; They made me sit and give thee suck as mortal mothers can, Bright Eyes, Light Eyes! strange and weak and wan! ”
- Robert Williams Buchanan- Copy
- 128
“ My intention here is to make it clear that not a single cell of my composition, here in regard to The Raven, is found by chance or intuition, that the composition moved towards perfection with the precision and inevitability of a mathematical equation. ”
- Maurice Ravel- Copy
- 1.8K
“ And still the Raven, never flitting, Still is sitting, still is sitting On the pallid bust of Pallas Just above my chamber door; And his eyes have all the seeming Of a demon's that is dreaming, And the lamplight o'er him streaming Throws his shadow on the floor, And my soul from out that shadow, That lies floating on the floor, Shall be lifted — nevermore. ”
- Edgar Allan Poe- Copy
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