„Inside the henhouse from where he will be taken to be killed, the cock sings hymns to liberty because he was given two perches.“

— Fernando Pessoa

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„Hope is the thing with feathersThat perches in the soulAnd sings the tune without the wordsAnd never stops at all.“
— Emily Dickinson
„I am yours. If you feed me garbage,I will sing a song of garbage.This is a hymn.“
— Margaret Atwood
„If I could dwellWhere IsrafelHath dwelt, and he where I,He might not sing so wildly wellA mortal melody,While a bolder note than this might swellFrom my lyre within the sky.“
— Edgar Allan Poe
„This will be the day when all of God's children will be able to sing with a new meaning, "My country, 'tis of thee, sweet land of liberty, of thee I sing. Land where my fathers died, land of the pilgrim's pride, from every mountainside, let freedom ring."“
— Jr.