Author: Chinua Achebe

Cites

• W. B. Yeats (1)
  • IN: Things Fall Apart (1958) Fiction, NULL
    EPIGRAPH: Turning and turning in the widening gyre The falcon cannot hear the falconer; Things fall apart; the centre cannot hold; Mere anarchy is loosed upon the world,
    FROM: The Second Coming, (1920), Poem, Ireland
• T. S. Eliot (1)
  • IN: No Longer At Ease (1969) Fiction, NULL
    EPIGRAPH: We returned to our places, these Kingdoms, But no longer at ease here, With an alien people clutching their gods. I should be glad of another death.
    FROM: Journey of the Magi, (1927), Poem, UK

Cited by

• Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni (2)
  • IN: One Amazing Thing (2010) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: We create stories and stories create us. It is a rondo.
    FROM: What Has Literature Got to Do with It, (1988), Essay, South Africa
  • IN: Sister of My Heart (1999) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: It is only the story... that saves our progeny from blundering like blind beggars into the spikes of the cactus fence.
    FROM: Anthills of the Savannah, (1987), Novel, Nigeria
• Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie (1)
  • IN: Half of a Yellow Sun (2006) Fiction, NULL
    EPIGRAPH: Today I see it still — Dry, wire-thin in sun and dust of the dry months — Headstone on tiny debris of passionate courage.
    FROM: From ‘Mango Seedling’ in Christmas in Biafra and Other Poems, (None), Poem, Nigeria