'Get thee back into the tempest and the Night's Plutonian shore! Leave no black plume as a token of that lie thy soul hath spoken! Leave my loneliness unbroken! - quit the bust above my door! Take thy beak from out my heart, and take thy form from off my door!' Quoth the Raven, 'Nevermore.'
About this quote
- What does it mean?
- The speaker yells at the raven to leave, but it replies with a single word of refusal.
- In plain terms
- I tell the bird to go away, but it says never.
- What can you take from it?
- Some losses cannot be dismissed by force or anger.
Where it applies
Putting it to work
Questions to consider
- How do you handle things you can't change?
- What do you wish to let go?
Another view
The raven may be imagined and not real.
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