“Your name is being called by sacred things
That are not addressed nor listened to.
Sometimes they blow trumpets.”
Song lyrics, The Red Shoes (1993)
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“At the round earth's imagin'd corners, blow
Your trumpets, angels, and arise, arise”
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Your trumpets, angels, and arise, arise
From death, you numberless infinities
Of souls, and to your scattred bodies go.
Norman Mailer (1923–2007) American novelist, journalist, essayist, playwright, film maker, actor and political candidate
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Laxmi Prasad Devkota (1909–1959) Nepali poet
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“Where the bright seraphim in burning row
Their loud uplifted angel trumpets blow.”
John Milton (1608–1674) English epic poet
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“The earth is not dying, it is being killed, and those who are killing it have names and addresses.”
Utah Phillips (1935–2008) American labor organizer, folk singer, storyteller and poet
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“I am a watchman…For that reason I am bound in conscience to blow the trumpet publicly.”
John Knox (1514–1572) Scottish clergyman, writer and historian
As quoted in World Studies for Christian Schools (2000) by Terri Koontz, Mark Sidwell & S. M. Bunker,
Context: As touching nature I am a worm of this earth, and yet a subject of this commonwealth; but as touching the office wherein it has pleased God to place me [head of the Reformed church in Scotland], I am a watchman... For that reason I am bound in conscience to blow the trumpet publicly.