Wire Steel Cage

Famous quotes containing the words wire, steel and/or cage:

    “Constantly risking absurdity
    and death
    whenever he performs
    above the heads
    of his audience
    the poet like an acrobat
    climbs on rime
    to a high wire of his own making.”
    —Lawrence Ferlinghetti (b. 1919)

    “There is a kind of strength that is almost frightening in black women. It’s as if a steel rod runs right through the head down to the feet.”
    —Maya Angelou (b. 1928)

    “The heart of a woman falls back with the night,
    And enters some alien cage in its plight,
    And tries to forget it has dreamed of the stars,
    While it breaks, breaks, breaks on the sheltering bars.”
    —Georgia Douglas Johnson (1886–1966)