Author: Ashley Hay

Cites

• W. H. Auden (1)
  • IN: The Body in the Clouds (2010) Fiction, Australian
    EPIGRAPH: ... In Breughel's Icarus, for instance: how everything turns away Quite leisurely ... the sun shone As it had to on the white legs disappearing into the green Water; and the expensive delicate ship that must have seen Something amazing, a boy falling out of the sky, Had somewhere to get to and sailed calmly on.
    FROM: "Musée des Beaux Arts", (1939), Poem, England/ US
• Governer Arthur Philip (1)
  • IN: The Body in the Clouds (2010) Fiction, Australian
    EPIGRAPH: ... That they have some idea of a future state appears from their belief in spirits, and from saying that the bones of the dead are in the graves, but the body in the clouds: and the question has been asked, do the white men go thither?
    FROM: NULL, (1790), Fictional, UK
• John Burnside (1)
  • IN: A Hundred Small Lessons (2017) Fiction, NULL
    EPIGRAPH: ... the people we were who said or omitted to say the appropriate words ... The shapes we mistake for love ... the shapes we mistake for ourselves at the edge of the water.
    FROM: III De libero arbitrio, (395), Book, NULL