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• Fishes that tipple in the deep, Know no such liberty.
  -- Richard Lovelace (1618-1658) -- To Althea from Prison, ii...
• When flowing cups pass swiftly round With no allaying Thames.
  -- Richard Lovelace (1618-1658) -- To Althea from Prison, ii...
• PRISON, n. A place of punishments and rewards. The poet assures us that -- "Stone walls do not a prison make
  but a combination of the stone wall, the political parasite and the moral instructor is no garden of sweets....
• Surely every human being ought to attain to the dignity of the unit.
  Surely it is worth while to be one, and to feel that the census of the universe would be incomplete without counting you....
• Ah, my friends, from the prison, they ask unto me, "How good, how good does it feel to be free?
  And I answer them most mysteriously: "Are birds free from the chains of the sky-way?...
• Well, we're big rock singers, we've got golden fingers, And we're loved everywhere we go.
  We sing about beauty, and we sing about truth, At ten thousand dollars a show....
• If my soul could get away from this so-called prison.
  ..I should hover over the beauty of our own bright star....
• I am thy father's spirit, Doom'd for a certain term to walk the night, And for the day confin'd to fast in fires, Till the foul crimes done in my days of nature Are burnt and purg'd away.
  But that I am forbid To tell the secrets of my prison-house, I could a tale unfold, whose lightest word Would harrow up thy soul, freeze thy young blood, Make thy two eyes, like stars, start from their spheres, Thy knotted and combined locks to part And each particular hair to stand an end, Like quills upon the fretful porpentine...
• I am alone Sitting with my empty glass My four walls Follow me trough my past.
  -- Berlin "The Metro...