| Respectfully Quoted: A Dictionary of Quotations. 1989. |
| NUMBER: | 642 |
| AUTHOR: | Khalil Gibran (1883–1931) |
| QUOTATION: | You can muffle the drum, and you can loosen the strings of the lyre, but who shall command the skylark not to sing? |
| ATTRIBUTION: | KAHLIL GIBRAN, “On Laws,” final sentence, The Prophet, p. 46 (1968). |
| SUBJECTS: | Freedom |
| BIOGRAPHY: | Columbia Encyclopedia |
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