--- title: "6 Cages Quotes By Rumi" description: "6 Cages quotes by Rumi. Plus more from Rumi and more Cages sayings from other authors." image: "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/21e/rumi-56_bird_the-feelings-trembled-and-flapped-in-his_658044.jpg" --- > [The feelings trembled and flapped in his chest like a bird newly put in a cage.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/rumi/the-feelings-trembled-and-flapped-in-his-chest-like-a-bird-newly-put/) [Rumi](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/rumi/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/21e/rumi-56_bird_the-feelings-trembled-and-flapped-in-his_658044.jpg) > [I am a bird of God's garden and I do not belong to this dusty world For a day or two they…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/rumi/i-am-a-bird-of-god-s-garden-and-i-do-not-belong-to-this-dusty-world/) [Rumi](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/rumi/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/8e3/rumi-56_bird_i-am-a-bird-of-god-s-garden-and-i-do-not_942960.jpg) > [A heart filled with love is like a phoenix that no cage can imprison.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/rumi/a-heart-filled-with-love-is-like-a-phoenix-that-no-cage-can-imprison/) [Rumi](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/rumi/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/760/rumi-56_attitude_a-heart-filled-with-love-is-like-a-phoen_989858.jpg) > [While still in the cage of your being behold the spirit bird before it flies away.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/rumi/while-still-in-the-cage-of-your-being-behold-the-spirit-bird-before/) [Rumi](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/rumi/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/086/rumi-56_bird_while-still-in-the-cage-of-your-being-be_1211299.jpg) > [Nightingales are put in cages because their songs give pleasure. Whoever heard of keeping a crow?](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/rumi/nightingales-are-put-in-cages-because-their-songs-give-pleasure/) [Rumi](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/rumi/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/024/rumi-56_cages_nightingales-are-put-in-cages-because-th_1407133.jpg) > [“Your faces are very beautiful, but they are wooden cages. You had better run from me. My words are fire.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/rumi/your-faces-are-very-beautiful-but-they-are-wooden-cages-you-had/) [Rumi](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/rumi/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/a31/rumi-56_mortality_your-faces-are-very-beautiful-but-they-a_1875965.jpg) ## Other authors on Cages ## More by Rumi > [The love religion is all that is written here.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/rumi/the-love-religion-is-all-that-is-written-here/) [Rumi](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/rumi/) > [And so it is, that both the Devil and the angelic Spirit present us with objects of desire to awaken our power of choice.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/rumi/and-so-it-is-that-both-the-devil-and-the-angelic-spirit-present-us/) [Rumi](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/rumi/) > [We began as mineral. We emerged into plant life, and into the animal state, and then into being human, and always we have forgotten…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/rumi/we-began-as-mineral-we-emerged-into-plant-life-and-into-the-animal/) [Rumi](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/rumi/) > [There is a morning inside you waiting to burst open into light.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/rumi/there-is-a-morning-inside-you-waiting-to-burst-open-into-light/) [Rumi](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/rumi/) > [Sometimes you hear a voice through the door calling you... This turning toward what you deeply love saves you.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/rumi/sometimes-you-hear-a-voice-through-the-door-calling-you-this-turning/) [Rumi](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/rumi/) > [“You’ve so distracted me, your absence fans my love. Don’t ask how. Then you come near. “Do not…” I say, and “Do not…,” you…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/rumi/you-ve-so-distracted-me-your-absence-fans-my-love-don-t-ask-how-then/) [Rumi](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/rumi/) > [There is something to be said for anyone who sits alone with dignity and silently begs for God.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/rumi/there-is-something-to-be-said-for-anyone-who-sits-alone-with-dignity/) [Rumi](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/rumi/) > [Tis easy to break an idol, very easy: to regard the self as easy to subdue is folly, folly.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/rumi/tis-easy-to-break-an-idol-very-easy-to-regard-the-self-as-easy-to/) [Rumi](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/rumi/) > [Today, let us swim wildly, joyously in gratitude.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/rumi/today-let-us-swim-wildly-joyously-in-gratitude/) [Rumi](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/rumi/) > [I have no name for what circles so perfectly.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/rumi/i-have-no-name-for-what-circles-so-perfectly/) [Rumi](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/rumi/) > [What draws friends together does not conform to the laws of nature.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/rumi/what-draws-friends-together-does-not-conform-to-the-laws-of-nature/) [Rumi](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/rumi/) > [We are born of love. Love is our mother.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/rumi/we-are-born-of-love-love-is-our-mother/) [Rumi](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/rumi/) > [Water, stories, the body, all the things we do, are mediums that hid and show what's hidden.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/rumi/water-stories-the-body-all-the-things-we-do-are-mediums-that-hid-and/) [Rumi](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/rumi/) > [If your heart isn't yet illumined Be awake always, be a seeker of the heart, Be at war continually with your carnal soul. But…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/rumi/if-your-heart-isn-t-yet-illumined-be-awake-always-be-a-seeker-of-the/) [Rumi](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/rumi/) > [“I came back to You because I could not find the kind and decent things I found in You anywhere else.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/rumi/i-came-back-to-you-because-i-could-not-find-the-kind-and-decent/) [Rumi](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/rumi/) ```json { "@context": "https://schema.org", "@graph": [ { "@type": "ItemList", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/cages/rumi/#itemlist", "name": "6 Cages Quotes By Rumi", "numberOfItems": 6, "itemListElement": [ { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 1, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "The feelings trembled and flapped in his chest like a bird newly put in a cage.", "creator": { "@type": "Person", "name": "Rumi" }, "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/rumi/the-feelings-trembled-and-flapped-in-his-chest-like-a-bird-newly-put/", "image": { "@type": "ImageObject", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/21e/rumi-56_bird_the-feelings-trembled-and-flapped-in-his_658044.jpg", "contentUrl": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/21e/rumi-56_bird_the-feelings-trembled-and-flapped-in-his_658044.jpg", "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/21e/rumi-56_bird_the-feelings-trembled-and-flapped-in-his_658044.jpg", "width": 1080, "height": 1080, "caption": "“The feelings trembled and flapped in his chest like a bird newly put in a cage.” — Rumi", "creditText": "SMS4Smile Quotes", "creator": { "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/#organization" } } } }, { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 2, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "I am a bird of God's garden and I do not belong to this dusty world For a day or two they have put me here in this cage of my own body I did not come here of my own I will not return of my own to my own country.", "creator": { "@type": "Person", "name": "Rumi" }, "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/rumi/i-am-a-bird-of-god-s-garden-and-i-do-not-belong-to-this-dusty-world/", "image": { "@type": "ImageObject", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/8e3/rumi-56_bird_i-am-a-bird-of-god-s-garden-and-i-do-not_942960.jpg", "contentUrl": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/8e3/rumi-56_bird_i-am-a-bird-of-god-s-garden-and-i-do-not_942960.jpg", "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/8e3/rumi-56_bird_i-am-a-bird-of-god-s-garden-and-i-do-not_942960.jpg", "width": 1080, "height": 1080, "caption": "“I am a bird of God's garden and I do not belong to this dusty world For a day or two they have put me here…” — Rumi", "creditText": "SMS4Smile Quotes", "creator": { "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/#organization" } } } }, { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 3, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "A heart filled with love is like a phoenix that no cage can imprison.", "creator": { "@type": "Person", "name": "Rumi" }, "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/rumi/a-heart-filled-with-love-is-like-a-phoenix-that-no-cage-can-imprison/", "image": { "@type": "ImageObject", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/760/rumi-56_attitude_a-heart-filled-with-love-is-like-a-phoen_989858.jpg", "contentUrl": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/760/rumi-56_attitude_a-heart-filled-with-love-is-like-a-phoen_989858.jpg", "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/760/rumi-56_attitude_a-heart-filled-with-love-is-like-a-phoen_989858.jpg", "width": 1080, "height": 1080, "caption": "“A heart filled with love is like a phoenix that no cage can imprison.” — Rumi", "creditText": "SMS4Smile Quotes", "creator": { "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/#organization" } } } }, { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 4, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "While still in the cage of your being behold the spirit bird before it flies away.", "creator": { "@type": "Person", "name": "Rumi" }, "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/rumi/while-still-in-the-cage-of-your-being-behold-the-spirit-bird-before/", "image": { "@type": "ImageObject", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/086/rumi-56_bird_while-still-in-the-cage-of-your-being-be_1211299.jpg", "contentUrl": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/086/rumi-56_bird_while-still-in-the-cage-of-your-being-be_1211299.jpg", "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/086/rumi-56_bird_while-still-in-the-cage-of-your-being-be_1211299.jpg", "width": 1080, "height": 1080, "caption": "“While still in the cage of your being behold the spirit bird before it flies away.” — Rumi", "creditText": "SMS4Smile Quotes", "creator": { "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/#organization" } } } }, { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 5, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "Nightingales are put in cages because their songs give pleasure. 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