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“No bird in a cage ever speaks. What is there to say? The sky is everywhere, churning above its head, blue and endless, calling out to it. But the caged bird can't answer anything except 'I cannot'.”

Speak Answers Sky Calling Bird Blue Endless Cages Caged Churning Caged Birds

Author:Sonya Hartnett

“The feelings trembled and flapped in his chest like a bird newly put in a cage.”

Feelings Bird Chests Cages

Author:Rumi

“Birds born in a cage think flying is an illness.”

Thinking Born Freedom Bird Metaphor Ill Illness Flying Flight Aviation Spiritual Wisdom Cages Being Free Bird Flying Birds In Flight

Author:Alejandro Jodorowsky

“Before the castle gate all was as the fox had said: so the son went in and found the chamber where the golden bird hung in a wooden cage, and below”

Said Found Son Bird Golden Gates Hung Foxes Cages Castles Chamber

Book:Annotated Grimms' Fairy Tales with English Grammar Exercises: by Jacob Grimm and Wilhelm Grimm (Author), Robert Powell (Editor)

Source: Annotated Grimms' Fairy Tales with English Grammar Exercises: by Jacob Grimm and Wilhelm Grimm (Author), Robert Powell (Editor)

“His touch both consoles and devastates me; I feel my heart pulse, then wither, naked as a stone on the roaring mattress while the lovely, moony night slides through the window to dapple the flanks of this innocent who makes cages to keep the sweet birds in. Eat me, drink me; thirsty, cankered, goblin-ridden, I go back and back to him to have his fingers strip the tattered skin away and clothe me in his dress of water, this garment that drenches me, its slithering odour, its capacity for drowning.”

“A believer is a bird in a cage, a freethinker is an eagle parting the clouds with tireless wing.”

Bird Wings Atheist Clouds Believer Cages Eagles Parting Freethinker

Book:The Works of Robert G. Ingersoll

Source: The Works of Robert G. Ingersoll

“Marriage can be compared to a cage: birds outside it despair to enter, and birds within, to escape.”

Marriage Despair Bird Wedding Cages

Author:Michel de Montaigne

“Running made me feel like a bird let out of a cage, I loved it that much.”

Feels Made Running Bird Cages

Author:Priscilla Welch

“I am a bird of God's garden and I do not belong to this dusty world For a day or two they have put me here in this cage of my own body I did not come here of my own I will not return of my own to my own country.”

World Two Country Wisdom Body My Own Return Bird Garden Islamic Cages

Author:Rumi

“Not by lamentations and mournful chants ought we to celebrate the funeral of a good man, but by hymns; for, ion ceasing to be numbered with mortals, he enters upon the heritage of a diviner life. Since he is gone where he feels no pain, let us not indulge in too much grief. The soul is incapable of death. And he, like a bird not long enough in his cage to become attached to it, is free to fly away to a purer air. . . . Since we cherish a trust like this, let our outward actions be in accord with it, and let us keep our hearts pure and our minds calm.”

“I know why the caged bird sings.”

“You drew a bird that was here, a kind of sweet chanticleer. But with a terrible fear that the cage couldn't tame”

Kind Sweet Terrible Bird Cages

Author:Aimee Mann

“If the bird does like its cage, and does like its sugar and will not leave it, why keep the door so very carefully shut?”

Ifs Doe Doors Bird Sugar Cages

Book:The Story of an African Farm

Source: The Story of an African Farm

“A beard on a man is only a way of hiding something, his face of course, but also the inner matters, like a hedge around a secret garden, or a cover over a bird cage.”

Men Way Matter Faces Courses Secret Bird Garden Hiding Cages Beard Secret Garden Hiding Something Bird Cage

Book:The Secret Scripture

Source: The Secret Scripture

“Everybody's a bird, locked up in a pretty cage. Sometimes you fly to a slightly bigger one, but you never quite have the courage to abandon captivity completely.”

Sometimes Bird Bigger Abandon Locked Cages Never Quit Locked Up Captivity

Author:Dave McKean