“It was a large, black raven, and he thought he saw it plucking viciously and ardently at the eyes of the scarecrow.”

“What Keats and Hazlitt share perhaps above all is an emphasis on taste, on gusto as central to the poetic process, and both portray the poet as a ravener.”

“It was a large, black raven, and he thought he saw it plucking viciously and ardently at the eyes of the scarecrow.”

“Jet-black ravens squawked in the churchyard and storm-grey pigeons cooed in the park.”

“Put bluntly, these birds, which include crows, ravens, magpies, and jays, can be real jerks.”

“A skull rests on the threshold as a reminder of the wages of sin, and, above, an unkindness of ravens presides.”