
“If you got a trumpet, get on your feet, brother, and blow it!”
Fame's Penny-Trumpet st. 1 & 2
Rhyme? and Reason? (1883)
“If you got a trumpet, get on your feet, brother, and blow it!”
“At the round earth's imagin'd corners, blow
Your trumpets, angels, and arise, arise”
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.
“Your art is the Holy Ghost blowing through your soul.”
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.
Song lyrics, The Red Shoes (1993)
The Islanders http://whitewolf.newcastle.edu.au/words/authors/K/KiplingRudyard/verse/p1/islanders.html, l. 22-31 (1902).
Other works
As quoted in The Eternal Adam and the New World Garden (1968) by David W. Noble, p. 204