The title of Maya Angelou’s autobiography, I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings, is a line from a poem by this writer.
- Paul Laurence Dunbar
- Edna St. Vincent Millay
- Gwendolyn Brooks
- Carl Sandburg
The title of Maya Angelou’s autobiography, I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings, is a line from a poem by this writer.
Paul Laurence Dunbar. It was the last line of his poem Sympathy published in 1899 in a collection entitled Lyrics of the Hearthside.