#prison

All day I think about it, then at night I say it. Where did I come from, and what am I supposed to be doing? I have no idea. My soul is from elsewhere, I'm sure of that, And I intend to end up there. This drunkenness began in some other tavern. When I get back around to that place, I'll be completely sober. Meanwhile, I'm like a bird from another continent, sitting in this aviary. The day is coming when I fly off, But who is it now in my ear who hears my voice? Who says words with my mouth? Who looks out with my eyes? What is the soul? I cannot stop asking. If I could taste one sip of an answer, I could break out of this prison for drunks. I didn't come here of my own accord, and I can't leave that way. Whoever brought me here will have to take me home. This poetry. I never know what I'm going to say. I don't plan it. When I'm outside the saying of it, I get very quiet and rarely speak at all. We have a huge barrel of wine, but no cups. That's fine with us. Every morning We glow and in the evening we glow again. ↗

— Rumi

#prison

We differ on several issues. And this may include settlement, the release of prisoners, the wall closing institutions in Jerusalem. ↗

— Mahmoud Abbas

#differ #include #institutions #issues #jerusalem

When I'm forced by circumstances to be in a crowd of prisoners, it's all I can do to refrain from attack. ↗

— Jack Henry Abbott

#circumstances #crowd #forced #i #i can

So I departed and was free from imprisonment. ↗

— William Adams

#free #i #imprisonment

Among those people lucky enough, if you will, to have actually been brought to trial as a political prisoner, several historians have said there has not been one acquittal since the Bolshevik Revolution. ↗

— Barbara Amiel

#actually #among #been #bolshevik #brought

Memorial bracelets memorializing prisoners of war, missing in action, killed in action, and those who died of wounds or injuries sustained in a combat theater are authorized. ↗

— James F. Amos

#authorized #combat #died #injuries #killed

Sixty per cent of people entering prison today are illiterate. ↗

— Jeffrey Archer

#entering #illiterate #people #per #prison

My movies were the kind they show in prisons and airplanes, because nobody can leave. ↗

— Burt Reynolds

#kind #leave #movies #nobody #prisons

We can't let somebody rise to the top who will pardon these war criminals. Because they need to go to prison for what they've done in this world. We can't have a pardon. They need to pay for what they've done. ↗

— Cindy Sheehan

#criminals #done #go #need #pardon

I visited my father for the full ten years that he was in prison, so we already had a deep and loving relationship, and remembered our mother at those times. ↗

— Sam Sheppard

#deep #father #full #had #i