Raven Quotes

It wasn't for nothing that the raven was just now croaking on my left hand. (Plautus)
If there are words and wrongs like knives, whose deep inflicted lacerations never heal - cutting injuries and insults of serrated and poison-dripping edge - so, too, there are consolations of tone too fine for the ear not fondly and for ever to retain their echo: caressing kindnesses - loved, lingered over through a whole life, recalled with unfaded tenderness, and answering the call with undimmed shine, out of that raven cloud foreshadowing Death himself. View quote
Charlotte Brontë
To fight the raven you may make alliance with the serpent until the battle is done. View quote
Robert Jordan
Ghastly grim and ancient raven wandering from the nightly shore - Tell me what thy lordly name is on the Night's Plutonian shore! Quoth the raven, `Nevermore. View quote
Edgar Allan Poe
His eyes were frighteningly alive, the curve of his mouth savage and pleased. It suddenly didn't seem at all surprising that he should be able to pull things from his dreams. In that moment, Blue was a little in love with all of them. Their magic. Their quest. Their awfulness and strangeness. Her raven boys. View quote
Maggie Stiefvater
Why is a raven like a writing desk? View quote
Lewis Carroll
Does wisdom perhaps appear on the earth as a raven which is inspired by the smell of carrion? View quote
Friedrich Nietzsche
I am delighted, one more time, by the daring of my species and the audacity of our flying machines. There is poetry and music in our technology, a beauty as touching as that of eagle, moss campion, raven or yonder limestone boulder shining under the Arctic sun. View quote
Edward Abbey
So,” said Raven, "once again tonight we are presented with a mysterious sign and no way to know whether it completes a pattern or destroys one. View quote
Samuel R. Delany
The land is all too shallow It is painted on the sky And trembles like the wind-shook rain When the Raven King passed by. View quote
Susanna Clarke
But some characters in books are really real--Jane Austen's are; and I know those five Bennets at the opening of Pride and Prejudice, simply waiting to raven the young men at Netherfield Park, are not giving one thought to the real facts of marriage. (Dodie Smith)
Raven from the dim dominions On the Night's Plutonian shore, Oft I hear thy dusky pinions Wave and flutter round my door- See the shadow of thy pinions Float along the moonlit floor. View quote
Sarah Helen Whitman
And the Raven, never flitting, still is sitting, still is sitting On the pallid bust of Pallas just above my chamber door. View quote
Edgar Allan Poe
Get thee back into the tempest and the Night's Plutonian shore! Leave no black plume as a token of that lie thy soul hath spoken! Leave my loneliness unbroken! - quit the bust above my door! Take thy beak from out my heart, and take thy form from off my door!" Quoth the Raven, "Nevermore. View quote
Edgar Allan Poe
Once at the croak of a Raven who crost it, A barbarous people, Blind to the magic, And deaf to the melody, Snarl'd at and cursed me. A demon vext me, The light retreated, The landskip darken'd, The melody deaden'd, The Master whisper'd ‘Follow The Gleam.' View quote
Alfred, Lord Tennyson
We were aware of her profile, and it was... first, it's artistic: can she do it? Is she capable of handling this? Can she handle it emotionally? The song. Because it's a very emotional song. Can she handle it melodically? Does she have the range for it? Second, now then, you've got that, now you look to see...because it's a very strange duet, and I've always said it was meant to be a duet. I had the song in '86, and I don't care what anybody else says; I know it was my song, it was given to me in '86, I was gonna do it, it was always gonna be a duet, and I think the only real life of it is a duet. And that's my opinion, and my opinion only. That's it. But when it's a duet, it's a definitive duet. And then because of how it's a call-and-response duet, you needed the timbre of the voices. If you get someone with the same timbres... I'm being analytical, but that's exactly why we picked Marion Raven. And then on the fourth hand... what, she's twenty-two years old? She can get MTV where I can't! View quote
Meat Loaf
The House of Fantasy is built of stone and wood and furnished in High Medieval. Its people travel by horse and galley, fight with sword and spell and battle-axe, communicate by palantir or raven, and break bread with elves and dragons. The House of Science Fiction is built of duralloy and plastic and furnished in Faux Future. Its people travel by starship and aircar, fight with nukes and tailored germs, communicate by ansible and laser, and break protein bars with aliens. The House of Horror is built of bone and cobwebs and furnished in Ghastly Gothick. Its people travel only by night, fight with anything that will kill messily, communicate in screams and shrieks and gibbers, and sip blood with vampires and werewolves. View quote
George R. R. Martin
Hugo is a raven,and, as such he knows many things. I, meanwhile, am Hodge Starkweathe, a professor of history, as such, I do not know nearly enough. View quote
Cassandra Clare
Sorrow is not a raven perched persistently above a chamber door. Sorrow is a thing with teeth, and while in time it retreats, it comes back at the whisper of it's name. View quote
Dean Koontz
That raven on yon left-hand oak (Curse on his ill-betiding croak!) Bodes me no good. View quote
John Gay
Why is a raven like a writing desk? - Mad Hatter I haven't the slightest idea. - Alice. (Lewis Carroll)
Mad Hatter: "Why is a raven like a writing-desk?” "Have you guessed the riddle yet?” the Hatter said, turning to Alice again. "No, I give it up,” Alice replied: "What's the answer?” "I haven't the slightest idea,” said the Hatter. View quote
Lewis Carroll
The old man made himself look hard at the Raven and saw that it was not a great bird from the sky but the work of men like himself. This first encounter turned out to be peaceful. The men of the La Pérouse expedition were under strict orders to treat with respect any people they might discover, an exceptional policy for its time and after. View quote
Carl Sagan
There comes Poe, with his raven, like Barnaby Rudge, Three-fifths of him genius and two-fifths sheer fudge. View quote
James Russell Lowell
The raven is the bird of all the gods. It was the bird of Odin and the bird of Jesus Christ. It will also be the bird of the god Skandilán, who has yet to be born. Whomever the raven rends attains salvation. View quote
Halldór Laxness