Author: Amanda Craig

Cites

• Arthur Conan Doyle (1)
  • IN: The Lie of the Land (2017) Fiction, British
    EPIGRAPH: It is my belief, Watson, founded upon my experience, that the lowest and vilest alleys in London do not present a more dreadful record of sin than does the smiling and beautiful countryside... But look at these lovely houses, each in its own fields, filled for the most part with poor ignorant folk who know little of the law. Think of the deeds of hellish cruelty, the hidden wickedness which may go on, year in, year out, in such places, and none the wiser.
    FROM: "The Adventure of the Copper Beeches", The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, (1892), Short Story, UK
• W. H. Auden (1)
  • IN: The Lie of the Land (2017) Fiction, British
    EPIGRAPH: Like everything else which is not the result of fleeting emotion but the creation of time and will, any marriage, happy or unhappy, is infinitely more interesting than any romance, however passionate.
    FROM: A Certain World, (1970), Book, UK
• William Wordsworth (1)
  • IN: Hearts and Minds (2009) Fiction, British
    EPIGRAPH: ...among the multitudes Of that huge city, oftentimes was seen Affectingly set forth, more than elsewhere Is possible, the unity of men, One spirit over ignorance and vice Predominant, in good and evil hearts One sense for moral judgements, as one eye For the sun's light...
    FROM: The Prelude, (1850), Poem, UK
• George Gissing (1)
  • IN: Hearts and Minds (2009) Fiction, British
    EPIGRAPH: It is the mind which creates the world about us, and even though we stand side by side in the same meadow, my eyes will never see what is beheld by yours. My heart will never stir to the emotion with which yours is touched.
    FROM: NULL, (None), NULL, UK
• T. S. Eliot (1)
  • IN: Hearts and Minds (2009) Fiction, British
    EPIGRAPH: Unreal City, Under the brown fog of a winter down, A crowd flowed over London Bridge, so many, I had not thought death had undone so many. Sighs, short and infrequent, were exhaled, And each man fixed his eyes before his feet.
    FROM: The Waste Land, (1922), Poem, UK
• Dante Alighieri (1)
  • IN: In a Dark Wood (2000) Fiction, British
    EPIGRAPH: Midway upon the journey of our life I found that I had strayed into a wood So dark the right road was completely lost. How hard a thing it is for me to tell Of that wild wood, so rugged and so harsh -- The very thought of it renews my fear! So bitter it is, death were hardly worse. But to explain the good I found therein I will relate the other things I saw.
    FROM: The Divine Comedy, Hell, Canto One, (1472), Poem, Italy
• NULL (1)
  • IN: In a Dark Wood (2000) Fiction, British
    EPIGRAPH: My mother said, I never should Play with the gypsies in the wood; If I did, she would say, Naughty girl to disobey. Your hair shan't curl, Your shoes shan't shine, You naughty girl you shan't be mine. The wood was dark, the grass was green, Up comes Sally with a tambourine. I went to the river -- no ship to get across, I paid ten dollars for an old white horse, I up on his back and off in a crack -- Sally, tell my mother I shall never come back.
    FROM: Folk Rhyme, (None), Song, NULL
• William Shakespeare (1)
  • IN: Love in Idleness (2003) Fiction, British
    EPIGRAPH: Yet mark'd I where the bolt of Cupid fell, It fell upon a little western flow'r Before milk-white, now purple with love's wound, And maidens call it love-in-idleness.
    FROM: A Midsummer Night's Dream, (1600), Play, UK