One of the most considerable advantages the great have over their inferiors is to have servants as good as themselves.

Love Cervantes…”Don Quixote de La Mancha”…where my name comes from.

Miguel de Cervantes (via edminster)

I know why the caged bird sings by Maya Angelou

A free bird leaps on the back

Of the wind and floats downstream 

Till the current ends and dips his wing 

In the orange suns rays

And dares to claim the sky.

But a BIRD that stalks down his narrow cage

Can seldom see through his bars of rage

His wings are clipped and his feet are tied

So he opens his throat to sing.

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.

The free bird thinks of another breeze

And the trade winds soft through

The sighing trees

And the fat worms waiting on a dawn-bright

Lawn and he names the sky his own.

But a caged BIRD stands on the grave of dreams

His shadow shouts on a nightmare scream

His wings are clipped and his feet are tied

So he opens his throat to sing.

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.

Sanity may be madness but the maddest of all is to see life as it is and not as it should be.

~from “The Adventures of Don Quixote” by Miguel de Cervantes