Black Canary Appears

Famous quotes containing the words black, canary and/or appears:

“(The black stream, catching on a sunken rock,
Flung backward on itself in one white wave,
And the white water rode the black forever.”
—Robert Frost (1874–1963)

“Cruelty is a mystery, and the waste of pain. But if we describe a word to compass these things, a world that is a long, brute game, then we bump against another mystery: the inrush of power and delight, the canary that sings on the skull.”
—Annie Dillard (b. 1945)

“Like the physical, the psychical is not necessarily in reality what it appears to us to be.”
—Sigmund Freud (1856–1939)