
“How can a bird that is born for joy
Sit in a cage and sing?”
Source: I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings
“How can a bird that is born for joy
Sit in a cage and sing?”
“Love birds don't always sing pretty tunes.”
Source: Tears of the Moon
“Caged birds accept each other, but flight is what they long for.”
Act I, scene ii. Compare: "To public feasts, where meet a public rout,— Where they that are without would fain go in, And they that are within would fain go out", John Davies, Contention betwixt a Wife, etc.
The White Devil (1612)
“I am a cage, in search of a bird.”
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The Zürau Aphorisms (1917 - 1918)
Variant: A cage went in search of a bird.