Original Black Canary

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

    “We are obliged to regard many of our original minds as crazy at least until we have become as clever as they are.”
    —G.C. (Georg Christoph)

    “There with vast wings across the canceled skies,
    There in the sudden blackness the black pall
    Of nothing, nothing, nothing—nothing at all.”
    —Archibald MacLeish (1892–1982)

    “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)