“A robin redbreast in a cage
Puts all Heaven in a rage.”
William Blake (1757–1827) English Romantic poet and artist
Source: 1800s, Auguries of Innocence (1803), Line 5
“A robin redbreast in a cage
Puts all Heaven in a rage.”
William Blake (1757–1827) English Romantic poet and artist
Source: 1800s, Auguries of Innocence (1803), Line 5
“Despite all my rage
I am still just a rat in the cage.”
Billy Corgan (1967) American musician, songwriter, producer, and author
“I know because I read… Your mind is not a cage. It's a garden. And it requires cultivating.”
Libba Bray (1964) American teen writer
Aaron Hill (writer) (1685–1750) British writer
Don Alvarez in Act IV, Scene 1.
Alzira: A Tragedy (1736)
Context: Youth is ever apt to judge in haste,
And lose the medium in the wild extreme,
Do not repent, but regulate your passion:
Though love is reason, its excess is rage.
Give me, at least, your promise to reflect,
In cool, impartial solitude, and still.
No last decision till we meet again.
“If you don't want to explode with rage, leave your memory alone, abstain from burrowing there.”
Emil M. Cioran (1911–1995) Romanian philosopher and essayist
Anathemas and Admirations (1987)