I’m having a brain fart moment. I’m looking for the original use of the term “Caves of our mouths” from SOMEWHERE deep in the bowels of literature.
I heard it in a Bat for Lashes song from 2006 “The Bat’s Mouth” and some searching comes up with Elizabeth Tan but as far as I know, that’s later than the song.
I SWEAR it had come from something like the time period of Harlan Ellison’s Dangerous Visions crew, or some other highly vivid poetry of the 60’s or 70’s, but I can’t seem to recall it.
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Anyone up for a treasure hunt?
by arctunn
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Milton’s, Paradise Lost? Not sure if he used the exact phrase or is the earliest, but a poetic metaphor that compares the human mouth to a cave especially while singing praise seems very Milton like.