53 Quotes About Ravens

  • Author Peter S. Beagle
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    All lives are composed of two basic elements," the squirrel said, "purpose and poetry. By being ourselves, squirrel and raven, we fulfill the first requirement, you in flight and I in my tree. But there is poetry in the meanest of lives, and if we leave it unsought we leave ourselves unrealized. A life without food, without shelter, without love, a life lived in the rain—this is nothing beside a life without poetry.

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  • Author Lewis Carroll
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    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

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  • Author Samuel Taylor Coleridge
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    To all new truths, or renovation of old truths, it must be as in the ark between the destroyed and the about-to-be renovated world. The raven must be sent out before the dove, and ominous controversy must precede peace and the olive wreath.

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  • Author Jeaniene Frost
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    Cat, hmmm? From where I sit you look more like a Kitten." My head jerked around and I shot him an annoyed look. Oh, I was going to enjoy this, all right. "It's Cat," I repeated firmly. "Cat Raven." "Whatever you say, Kitten Tweedy.

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  • Author Juvenal
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    Dat veniam corvis, vexat censura columbas. - Censure acquits the raven, but pursues the dove.

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  • Author Juvenal
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    Censure pardons the ravens but rebukes the doves. [The innocent are punished and the wicked escape.]

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  • Author Jacob Latimore
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    I always love watching those natural actors like Bill Cosby, Raven-Symone and Shia LaBeouf - just effortless actors.

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