Famous quotes containing the words salman rushdie, rushdie, satanic and/or verses:
“Our lives teach us who we are.”
—Salman Rushdie (b. 1947)
“Your blasphemy, Salman, can’t be forgiven.... To set your words against the Words of God.”
—Salman Rushdie (b. 1948)
“of the satanic thistle that raises its horned symmetry
flowering above sister grass-daisies’ pink tiny
bloomlets angelic as lightbulbs—”
—Allen Ginsberg (b. 1926)
“All ye poets of the age,
All ye witlings of the stage,
Learn your jingles to reform,
Crop your numbers to conform.
Let your little verses flow
Gently, sweetly, row by row;
Let the verse the subject fit,
Little subject, little wit.
Namby-Pamby is your guide,
Albion’s joy, Hibernia’s pride.”
—Henry Carey (1693?–1743)