# Hendrix phrase-kiss the sky- original?

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**Category:** Factual Questions\
**Created:** [May 26, 2002, 4:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hendrix-phrase-kiss-the-sky-original/110926 "2002-05-26T16:28:31Z")\
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**Author:** ![samclem](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/a9a28c/32.png) [@samclem](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/samclem)\
**Post date:** [May 26, 2002, 4:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hendrix-phrase-kiss-the-sky-original/110926/1 "2002-05-26T16:28:31Z")

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I think this forumn is the correct one since it requires a factual answer.

Did Jimmy Hendrix originate the phrase _kiss the sky_ or did he get it from a poem? Was it perhaps a phrase he picked up playing with blues artists before he went on his own?

And plese don’t even bring up misheard lyrics. That’s been done to death.

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**Author:** ![bibliophage](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bibliophage/32/7615_2.png) [@bibliophage](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bibliophage)\
**Post date:** [May 26, 2002, 11:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hendrix-phrase-kiss-the-sky-original/110926/2 "2002-05-26T23:43:34Z")

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The only thing I can find is H. Rider Haggard’s _She_ (Chapter XI) where it doesn’t seem to be used in the same sense.

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> Its very solitude added to its majesty, and its  
> towering cliffs seemed to kiss the sky.