Author: Claire Vaye Watkins
Cites
- Stephen Crane (1)
- IN: Battleborn (2012) Fiction, American
EPIGRAPH: In the desert
I saw a creature, naked, bestial,
Who, squatting upon the ground,
Held his heart in his hands,
And ate of it.
I said, “Is it good, friend?”
“It is bitter—bitter,” he answered;
“But I like it
Because it is bitter,
And because it is my heart.”
FROM: "In the Desert", (1895), Poem, US
- William Mulholland (1)
- IN: Cold Fame Citrus (2015) Fiction, American
EPIGRAPH: There it is. Take it.
FROM: NULL, (1913), Speech, US