“How can a bird that is born for joy
Sit in a cage and sing?”
William Blake (1757–1827) English Romantic poet and artist
“The caged bird sings with a fearful trill,
of things unknown, but longed for still,
and his tune is heard on the distant hill,
for the caged bird sings of freedom.”
Source: I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings
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Sympathy, in the 1913 collection of his work, The Complete Poems of Paul Laurence Dunbar; the poem inspired the title of Maya Angelou's book, Why the Caged Bird Sings.
“Love birds don't always sing pretty tunes.”
Nora Roberts (1950) American romance writer
Source: Tears of the Moon
“Caged birds accept each other, but flight is what they long for.”
Tennessee Williams (1911–1983) American playwright
“A cage went in search of a bird.”
Franz Kafka book The Zürau Aphorisms
The Zürau Aphorisms (1917 - 1918), 16
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.”
Franz Kafka book The Zürau Aphorisms
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The Zürau Aphorisms (1917 - 1918)
Variant: A cage went in search of a bird.