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)

    “It is not a carol of joy or glee,
    But a prayer that he sends from his heart’s deep core,
    But a plea, that upward to Heaven he flings—
    I know why the caged bird sings!”
    —Paul Laurence Dunbar (1872–1906)

    “A bird half wakened in the lunar noon
    Sang halfway through its little inborn tune.”
    —Robert Frost (1874–1963)