Caged Bird

Famous quotes containing the words caged bird, caged and/or bird:

    “I know what the caged bird feels, alas!”
    —Paul Laurence Dunbar (1872–1906)

    “The compelled mother loves her child as the caged bird sings. The song does not justify the cage nor the love the enforcement.”
    —Germaine Greer (b. 1939)

    “but as an Eagle
    His cloudless thunderbolted on thir heads.
    So vertue giv’n for lost,
    Deprest, and overthrown, as seem’d,
    Like that self-begott’n bird
    In the Arabian woods embost,
    That no second knows nor third,
    And lay e’re while a Holocaust,
    From out her ashie womb now teem’d
    Revives, reflourishes, then vigorous most
    When most unactive deem’d,
    And though her body die, her fame survives,
    A secular bird ages of lives.”
    —John Milton (1608–1674)