
Here is a factoid for all you smarty pants. If you've ever used the term "movers and shakers" than you have quoted Arthur O'Shaughnessy's Ode from his book Music and Moonlight (1874). Another famous reference to the poem comes from the screenplay Charlie and the Chocolate Factory when Willy Wonka Sets Veruca Salt straight about the Snozberries. I never knew Wonka was quoting!
We are the music makers,Here is the poem in its entirety.
And we are the dreamers of dreams,
Wandering by lone sea-breakers,
And sitting by desolate streams;—
World-losers and world-forsakers, 5
On whom the pale moon gleams:
Yet we are the movers and shakers
Of the world for ever, it seems.
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