“Blow, blow your trumpets till they crack,
Ye little men of little souls!
And bid them huddle at your back -
Gold-sucking leeches, shoals on shoals!Fill all the air with hungry wails -
"Reward us, ere we think or write!
Without your Gold mere Knowledge fails
To sate the swinish appetite!"”
Fame's Penny-Trumpet st. 1 & 2
Rhyme? and Reason? (1883)
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Lewis Carroll241
English writer, logician, Anglican deacon and photographer 1832–1898Related quotes
“At the round earth's imagin'd corners, blow
Your trumpets, angels, and arise, arise”
John Donne book Holy Sonnets
No. 7, line 1
Holy Sonnets (1633)
Context: At the round earth's imagin'd corners, blow
Your trumpets, angels, and arise, arise
From death, you numberless infinities
Of souls, and to your scattred bodies go.
The Bell Buoy.
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“Your art is the Holy Ghost blowing through your soul.”
Jack Kerouac (1922–1969) American writer
A misquote. It derives from an interview that journalist Bruce Cook conducted with Kerouac in 1968 and reported in his book The Beat Generation (1971). According to Cook, Kerouac explained to him his method of writing: "I'll just sit down and let it flow out of me ... It's the Holy Ghost that comes through you. You don't have to be a Catholic to know what I mean, and you don't have to be a Catholic for the Holy Ghost to speak through you." Source of misquote.
Kate Bush (1958) British recording artist; singer, songwriter, musician and record producer
Song lyrics, The Red Shoes (1993)
Rudyard Kipling (1865–1936) English short-story writer, poet, and novelist
The Islanders http://whitewolf.newcastle.edu.au/words/authors/K/KiplingRudyard/verse/p1/islanders.html, l. 22-31 (1902). <br class="br">Other works
Norman Mailer (1923–2007) American novelist, journalist, essayist, playwright, film maker, actor and political candidate
As quoted in The Eternal Adam and the New World Garden (1968) by David W. Noble, p. 204