“Can the imagination, any more than the boy, be held prisoner ?" - from the foreword to the 1976 edition of "The Painted Bird” ImaginationBoysBirdPrisoner Author:Jerzy Kosinski
“She seemed to belong to that pagan, primitive kingdom of birds and forests where everything was infinitely abundant, wild, blooming, and royal in its perpetual decay, death, and rebirth; illicit and clashing with the human world.” WorldHumansBirdKingdomsForestsPerpetualDecayPrimitiveRoyalRebirthPaganBloomingDeath And Rebirth Book:The Painted Bird Source: The Painted Bird
