Blackbird Quotes and Quotations

 

“I do not know which to prefer, The beauty of inflections, Or the beauty of innuendoes, The blackbird whistling, Or just after”
A quotation by Wallace Stevens

 

“Sing a song of sixpence, a pocket full of rye, Four and twenty blackbirds, baked in a pie”…
An old poem we learned in school as a youngster

 

“There’ll be white blackbirds before an unwilling woman ties the knot.”
An Irish Proverb

 

“Blackbirds are the cellos of the deep farms.”
A quotation by Anne Stevenson

 

“I value my garden more for being full of blackbirds than of cherries, and very frankly give them fruit for their songs.”
A quotation by Joseph Addison

 

“He comes by for a dove dinner or a blackbird dinner.”
A quotation by Alvin May

 

I know noble accents And lucid, inescapable rhythms; But I know, too, That the blackbird is involved In what I know.
A quotation by Wallace Stevens

 

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