cockatoo quotes

Home life as we understand it is no more natural to us than a cage is natural to a cockatoo.

-Shaw, George Bernard
  Getting Married, preface,'Hearth and Home'.

Complacencies of the peignoir, and late Coffee and oranges in a sunny chair, And the green freedom of a cockatoo Upon a rug mingle to dissipate The holy hush of ancient sacrifice.

-Stevens,Wallace
  Harmonium,'Sunday Morning', pt.1.

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