Edgar Allan Poe
Poet, Writer
"And my soul from out that shadow that lies floating on the floor, Shall be lifted -- Nevermore!"
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Ravens
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Zendaya
Actress, Singer, Model
"I grew up watching "That's So Raven" and "Lizzie McGuire," and I said to myself that I could do that one day, and here I am. This is a dream come true and I am just ecstatic to be here living out my childhood dreams."
Robert Jordan
Author
"To fight the raven you may make alliance with the serpent until the battle is done."
Lewis Carroll
Author, Mathematician
"Why is a raven like a writing desk?"
Jim Morrison
Musician, Poet
"Do you know how pale & wanton thrillful comes death on a strange hour unannounced, unplanned for like a scaring over-friendly guest you've brought to bed Death makes angels of us all & gives us wings where we had shoulders smooth as raven's claws"
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"My love is like some raven at my window with a broken wing."
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"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."
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"Some battles are won with swords and spears, others with quills and ravens."
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"Take thy beak from out my heart, and take thy form from off my door!” Quoth the raven, “Nevermore."
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"And the Raven, never flitting, still is sitting, still is sitting..."
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"The raven once in snowy plumes was drest, White as the whitest dove's unsullied breast, Fair as the guardian of the Capitol, Soft as the swan; a large and lovely fowl His tongue, his prating tongue had changed him quite To sooty blackness from the purest white."
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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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"Does wisdom perhaps appear on the earth as a raven which is inspired by the smell of carrion?"
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"Quoth the Raven, "Nevermore."
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"Prophet!" said I, "thing of evil! - prophet still, if bird or devil! By that Heaven that bends above us- by that God we both adore- Tell this soul with sorrow laden if, within the distant Aidenn, It shall clasp a sainted maiden whom the angels name Lenore- Clasp a rare and radiant maiden whom the angels name Lenore." Quoth the Raven, "Nevermore."
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"He that visits the sick in hopes of a legacy, but is never so friendly in all other cases, I look upon him as being no better than a raven that watches a weak sheep only to peck out its eyes."
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"Why is a raven like a writing desk? - Mad Hatter I haven't the slightest idea. - Alice"
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"Quaff, oh quaff this kind nepenthe, and forget this lost Lenore!"
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"The Raven's house is built with reeds, — Sing woe, and alas is me! And the Raven's couch is spread with weeds, High on the hollow tree; And the Raven himself, telling his beads In penance for his past misdeeds, Upon the top I see."
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"Love can be angry... with a kind of anger in which there is no gall, like the dove's and not the ravens."
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"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."
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"Despite the fact that Raven and Tack are often fighting, it's impossible to imagine one without the other. They are like two plants that have grown around each other - they strangle and squeeze and support at the same time."
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"I’m sorry,” he repeats again, too low for Raven and Tack to hear. “I’m sorry for everything."
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"Every time I have to try on a wig for work, I get excited about the colour; I've often thought about going for a platinum bob or also raven black, as it looks so great against pale skin. But I always end up being loyal to my red colour."
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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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