Perhaps poetry will be the canary in the mine-shaft…

“It starts now. Right here, right now. If you do not want to get bent over this table and fucked in this booth, I…

— Lainey Reese

Don't save the canary. Fix the coal mine.

— Seth Godin

Because of her, he had learned to look for the birds - the darting flight of wild canaries (yellow sun on yellow wings), the…

— Terry Kay

Right and responsibility go hand in hand. You can't give rights to those who are not responsible. If you want to let your canary…

— Ali Sina

A tom cat hijacked a plane, stuck a pistol into the pilot's ribs and demanded: 'Take me to the canaries'.

— Bob Monkhouse

The smell of that buttered toast simply spoke to Toad, and with no uncertain voice; talked of warm kitchens, of breakfasts on bright frosty…

— Kenneth Grahame

The image that I remember most of all is of the Fenerbahçe players storming into the stadium before kickoff. They were called the canaries…

— Orhan Pamuk

You can't soar like an eagle and crap like a canary.

— Ed Sabol

Long after her death I felt her thoughts floating through mine. Long before we met we had had the same dreams. We compared notes.…

— Vladimir Nabokov

Birds are, especially canaries, are super sensitive to hydrogen sulfide and sour gas.

— David Suzuki

You could say sorry," suggested Harry bluntly. "What, and get attacked by another flock of canaries?" muttered Ron. "What did you have to imitate…

— Anonymous

Better a debauched canary than a pious wolf.

— Anton Chekhov

“Some people keep canaries, some people join the Party,”

— John le Carré

“In a world where no creatures are truly isolated and diseases spread around as fast as jets can fly, we are all canaries and…

— Barbara Natterson-Horowitz

Being in love, you know... it's not like having a canary, in a cage. When you lose one sweetheart, you can't just go out…

— Sarah Waters