Author: Emily Dickinson
Cited by
- Cheryl Strayed (1)
- IN: Wild (2012) Non-fiction, Memoir, American
EPIGRAPH: "If your Nerve, deny you -- / Go above your Nerve --"
FROM: #292, (1935), Poem, US
- Richard Powers (1)
- IN: Galatea 2.2 (1995) Speculative, Autobiographical fiction, American
EPIGRAPH: The brain is wider than the sky, / For, put them side by side, / The one the other will contain / With ease, and you beside. / The brain is deeper than the sea, / For, hold them, blue to blue, / The one the other will absorb, / As sponges, buckets do. / The brain is just the weight of God,/ For, heft them, pound for pound, / And they will differ, if they do, / As syllable from sound
FROM: CXXVI, (1924), Poem, US
- Lisa Samuels (1)
- IN: The Invention of Culture (2008) Poetry, NULL
EPIGRAPH: That we are permanent temporarily, it is warm to know, though we know no more.
FROM: To Louise and Frances Norcross, (1885), Letter, US
- K K Seet (1)
- IN: Death Rites: Tales from a wake (None) Fiction, Singaporean
EPIGRAPH: Because I could not stop for Death -
He kindly stopped for me -
The Carriage helf but just Ourselves -
And Immortality.
We slowly drove - He knew no haste
And I had put away
My labor and my leisure too,
For His Civility
FROM: #479, (1890), Poem, US
- Russell Banks (1)
- IN: The Sweet Hereafter (1991) Fiction, American
EPIGRAPH: By homely gift and hindered words
The human heart is told
of nothing ---
"nothing" is the force
That renovates the world ---
FROM: #1563, (1883), Poem, US
- Elizabeth Cooke (1)
- IN: Zeena (1996) Fiction, British
EPIGRAPH: Goodbye to the life I used to Live--
And the world I used to know--
And kiss the hills, for me, just once--
Then -- I am ready to go!
FROM: Farewell, (1896), Poem, UK
- Roopa Farooki (1)
- IN: Half Life (2010) Fiction, British
EPIGRAPH: I measure every grief I meet
With analytic eyes;
I wonder if it weighs like mine
Or has an easier size...
The grieved are many, I am told;
There is the various cause;
Death is but one and comes but once
And only nails the eyes.
FROM: #561, (1896), Poem, US
- Margaret Atwood (1)
- IN: Alias Grace (1996) Fiction, NULL
EPIGRAPH: I have no Tribunal.
FROM: Letters, (1958), Letter, US
- Athol Fugard (1)
- IN: The Road to Mecca (1985) Fiction, Play, NULL
EPIGRAPH: The Soul selects her own society --
Then -- shuts the door --
On her divine majority --
Present no more.
FROM: #303, (1890), Poem, US
- Heng Siok Tian (2)
- IN: Contouring (2004) Poetry, Singaporean
EPIGRAPH: Her message is committed
To hands I cannot see
FROM: This Is My Letter To The World, (1862), Poem, US
- Aimee Freidman (1)
- IN: Two Summers (2016) Fiction, Young Adult Fiction, American
EPIGRAPH: I dwell in Possibility --
FROM: #466, (1862), Poem, US
- Emily Gale (1)
- IN: The Other Side of Summer (2016) Fiction, Young Adult Fiction, Australian
EPIGRAPH: Hope is the thing with feathers
That perches in the soul,
And sings the tune without the words,
And never stops at all.
FROM: #254, (1891), Poem, US
- Kim Harrington (2)
- IN: The Killing of Kayla Sloane (2013) Fiction, Young Adult Fiction, American
EPIGRAPH: One need not be a chamber to be haunted.
One need not be a house.
The brain has corridors surpassing material place.
FROM: One need not be a chamber to be haunted., (1924), Poem, US
- IN: The dead and Buried (2012) Fiction, Young Adult Fiction, American
EPIGRAPH: One need not be a chamber to be haunted.
One need not be a house.
The brain has corridors surpassing material place.
FROM: One need not be a Chamber - to be Haunted, (1891), Poem, US
- Brendan Kiely (1)
- IN: The Last True Love Story (2016) Fiction, Young Adult Fiction, American
EPIGRAPH: That Love is all there is,
Is all we know of Love.
FROM: The Single Hound, (1914), Poem, US
- Jennifer McKissack (1)
- IN: Sanctuary (2015) Fiction, Young Adult Fiction, American
EPIGRAPH: I fitted to the latch
My hand, with trembling care,
Lest back the awful door should spring,
And leave me standing there.
I moved my fingers off
As cautiously as glass,
And held my ears, and like a thief
Fled gasping from the house.
FROM: I Years had been from Home, (1891), Poem, US
- Melissa de la Cruz (1)
- IN: The Ring & the Crown (2014) Fantasy, Young Adult Fiction, American
EPIGRAPH: A half unconscious Queen— / But this time—Adequate—Erect, / With Will to choose, or to reject, / And I choose, just a Crown—
FROM: I'm ceded—I've stopped being Theirs, (1890), Poem, US
- Rebecca Serle (2)
- IN: Truly, Madly, Famously (2015) Fiction, Young Adult Fiction, American
EPIGRAPH: Fame is a bee.
It has a song-
It has a sting-
Ah, too, it has a wing.
FROM: Fame is a Bee, (1890), Poem, US
- IN: Truly Madly Famously (2015) Fiction, Young Adult Fiction, American
EPIGRAPH: Fame is a bee.
It has a song--
It has a sting--
Ah, too, it has a wing.
FROM: Fame is a bee, (1890), Poem, US
- Barbara Stewart (1)
- IN: The In-Between (2013) Fiction, Young Adult Fiction, American
EPIGRAPH: Hope is the thing with feathers that perches in the soul.
FROM: #254, (1890), Poem, US
- Jenny Torres Sanchez (1)
- IN: Death, Dickinson, and the Demented Life of Frenchie Garcia (2013) Fiction, Young Adult Fiction, American
EPIGRAPH: There's been a Death, in the Opposite House,
As lately as Today —
I know it, by the numb look
Such Houses have — alway —
The Neighbors rustle in and out —
The Doctor — drives away —
A Window opens like a Pod —
Abrupt — mechanically —
Somebody flings a Mattress out —
The Children hurry by —
They wonder if It died — on that —
I used to — when a Boy —
The Minister — goes stiffly in —
As if the House were His —
And He owned all the Mourners — now —
And little Boys — besides —
And then the Milliner — and the Man
Of the Appalling Trade —
To take the measure of the House —
There'll be that Dark Parade —
Of Tassels — and of Coaches — soon —
It's easy as a Sign —
The Intuition of the News —
In just a Country Town —
FROM: #389, (1896), Poem, US
- Carey Wallace (1)
- IN: The Ghost in the Glass House (2013) Fiction, young Adult Fiction, American
EPIGRAPH: The going from a world we know
To one a wonder still
Is like the child's adversity
Whose vista is a hill,
Behind the hill is sorcery,
And everything unknown,
But will the secret compensate
For climbing it alone?
FROM: #1603, (None), Poem, US
- Jennifer Lynn Barnes (1)
- IN: Nobody (2013) Fiction, Young Adult Fiction, American
EPIGRAPH: I'm nobody! Who are you? Are you nobody, too?
FROM: I'm Nobody! Who are you?, (1891), Poem, US
- Rachel Coker (1)
- IN: Interrupted (2012) Fiction, Young Adult Fiction, American
EPIGRAPH: A chilly Peace infests the Grass / The Sun respectful lifes -- / Not any Trance of industry / These shadows scrutinize
FROM: A chilly Peace infests the Grass, (1945), Poem, US
- Kerstin Gier (1)
- IN: Emerald Green (2013) Fiction, Young Adult Fiction, German
EPIGRAPH: Hope is the thing with feathers
That perches in the soul.
And sings the tune without the words
And never stops at all.
FROM: #254, (1891), Poem, US
- Wendy Higgins (1)
- IN: Sweet Peril (2013) Fiction, Young Adult Fiction, American
EPIGRAPH: Hope is the thing with feathers
That perches in the soul,
And sings the tune without the words,
And never stops at all...
FROM: #254, (1891), Poem, US
- Kathy MacMillan (1)
- IN: Sword and Verse (2016) Fiction, Young Adult Fiction, American
EPIGRAPH: Find ecstasy in life;
the mere sense of living is joy enough.
FROM: Letter to T. W. Higginson, (1870), Letter, US
- Martine Leavitt (1)
- IN: Ketorah and Lord Death (2006) Fiction, Young Adult Fiction, American
EPIGRAPH: Because I could not stop for Death,
He kindly stopped for me;
The carriage held but just ourselves
And Immortality.
FROM: The Chariot, (1890), Poem, US
- Michael Bedard (1)
- IN: The Green Man (2012) Fiction, Young Adult Fiction, NULL
EPIGRAPH: I reckon - when I count at all -
First - poets - Then the Sun -
Then Summer - Then the Heaven of God -
And then - the List is done -
FROM: I reckon - when I count at all, (1955), Poem, US
- Blake Nelson (1)
- IN: Recovery Road (2011) Fiction, Young Adult Fiction, American
EPIGRAPH: And Something's odd - within -
That person I was -
And this One - do not feel the same -
FROM: #410, (1935), Poem, US
- William Bernhardt (3)
- IN: Criminal Intent (2002) Fiction, American
EPIGRAPH: This world is not conclusion;
A sequel stands beyond,
Invisible, as music,
but positive as sound.
It beckons and it baffles;
Philosophies don't know,
And through a riddle at the last,
Sagacity must go.
FROM: #373, (1896), Poem, US
- IN: Capitol Murder (2006) Fiction, American
EPIGRAPH: Much Madness is divinest sense to a discerning eye-
Much sense the starkest madness.
FROM: #620, (1890), Poem, US
- IN: Capitol Threat (2007) Fiction, American
EPIGRAPH: Lad of Athens, faithful be
To Thyself,
And Mystery-
All the rest is Perjury-
FROM: "Lad of Athens, faithful be", (1768), Poem, US
- Laura Whitcomb (1)
- IN: Under the Light (2015) Fiction, Young Adult Fiction, American
EPIGRAPH: Under the Light, yet under,
Under the Grass and the Dirt,
Under the Beetle's Cellar
Under the Clover's Root,
Further than Arm could stretch
Were it Giant long,
Further than Sunshine could
Were the Day Year long,
Over the Light, yet over,
Over the Arc of the Bird—
Over the Comet's chimney—
Over the Cubit's Head,
Further than Guess can gallop
Further than Riddle ride—
Oh for a Disc to the Distance
Between Ourselves and the Dead!
FROM: #949, (1945), Poem, US
- Chris Bohjalian (2)
- IN: Close your Eyes, Hold hands (2014) Fiction, American
EPIGRAPH: Tell all the Truth but tell it slant.
FROM: NULL, (1945), Poem, US
- Wendy Wallace (1)
- IN: The Painted Bridge (2012) Fiction, British
EPIGRAPH: Hope is the thing with feathers-
That perches in the soul-
And sings the tune without the words-
And never stops-at all-
FROM: #254, (1891), Poem, US
- Lawrence Block (1)
- IN: A Ticket To The Boneyard (1990) Fiction, American
EPIGRAPH: Several of nature's people
I know, and they know me;
I feel for them a transport
Of cordiality;
But never met this fellow,
Attended or alone,
Without a tighter breathing,
And zero at the bone.
FROM: The Snake, (1891), Poem, US
- Michael Christie (1)
- IN: If I Fall, If I Die (2015) Fiction, NULL
EPIGRAPH: I lived on dread - [she wrote]
To those who know
The stimulus there is
In danger -- other impetus
Is numb -- and vitalles
FROM: #770, (1891), Poem, US
- Laura Lippman (1)
- IN: To The Power of Three (2005) Fiction, American
EPIGRAPH: My Life had stood-a Loaded gun
-In Corners-till a Day
The Owner passed-identified-
And carried Me away-
…
Though I than He-may longer live
He longer must-than I-
For I have but the power to kill,
Without-the power to die
FROM: My Life had stood-a Loaded gun, (1929), Poem, US
- Kate Atkinson (1)
- IN: When Will There Be Good News? (2008) Fiction, Crime, Thriller, British
EPIGRAPH: We never know we go,-when we are going
We jest and shut the door;
Fate following behind us bolts it,
And we accost no more.
FROM: #1523, (1896), Poem, US
- Alison Gaylin (1)
- IN: What Remains Of Me (2016) Fiction, American
EPIGRAPH: I would like more sisters, that the taking out of one, might not leave such stillness.
FROM: Selected Letters, (1971), Letter, US
- Lorrie Moore (2)
- IN: Who Will Run the Frog Hospital (1994) Fiction, American
EPIGRAPH: How public — like a Frog—
To tell one’s name — the livelong June—
FROM: I'm Nobody! Who are you?, (1891), Poem, US
- IN: Who Will Run the Frog Hospital? (1994) Fiction, American
EPIGRAPH: How public – Like a Frog –
To tell one’s name – the livelong June –
To an admiring Bog!
FROM: I'm Nobody! Who are you?, (1891), Poem, US
- Joshilyn Jackson (2)
- IN: Someone Else's Story (2013) Fiction, American
EPIGRAPH: "Hope" is the thing with feathers --
That perches in the soul --
And sings the tune without the words --
And never stops -- at all --
FROM: "Hope" is the thing with feathers (254), (1891), Poem, US
- IN: Someone else's love story (2013) Fiction, American
EPIGRAPH: "Hope" is the thing with feathers --
that perches in the soul--
And sings the tune without the words --
And never stops -- at all --
FROM: #254, (1891), Poem, US
- Mireille Juchau (1)
- IN: The World Without Us (2015) Fiction, American
EPIGRAPH: The murmuring of Bees, has ceased
But murmuring of some
Posterior, prophetic,
Has simultaneous come.
FROM: The mumuring of Bees, has ceased, (1896), Poem, US
- Peter Straub (2)
- IN: Mr. X (1999) Fiction, Speculative Fiction, American
EPIGRAPH: I could not weigh myself—Myself—
My size felt small—to me—I read your Chapter in the Atlantic—
and experienced honor for you—I was sure you would not reject a
confiding question—
Is this—Sir—what you asked me to tell you?
FROM: Emily Dickinson, letter to Thomas Wentworth Higginson, April 25, 1862, (1862), Letter, US
- IN: In the Night Room (2004) Fiction, American
EPIGRAPH: I wanted to write, and just tell you that me and
my spirit were fighting this morning. It is’nt known
generally, and you must’nt tell anybody.
FROM: Letter to Emily Fowler, 1850, (1850), Letter, US
- Robert Silverberg (1)
- IN: The Red Blaze is the Morning (1995) Fiction, American
EPIGRAPH: The Red—Blaze—is the Morning—
The Violet—is Noon—
The Yellow—Day—is falling—
And after that—is none—
FROM: #469, (1945), Poem, US
- Jonathan Howard (1)
- IN: Johannes Cabal the Necromancer (2009) Fiction, American
EPIGRAPH: A Clock stopped —
Not the Mantel’s —
Geneva’s farthest skill
Can’t put the puppet bowing —
That just now dangled still —
FROM: #53, (1896), Poem, US
- Helen Oyeyemi (3)
- IN: What is not Yours is not Yours (2016) Fiction, American
EPIGRAPH: open me carefully
FROM: written on an envelope containing a letter from Emily Dickinson to Susan Huntington Gilbert, (1852), Letter, US
- IN: The Icarus Girl (2005) Fiction, British
EPIGRAPH: Alone I cannot be -
For Hosts do visit me -
Recordless Company …
FROM: Alone, I cannot be, (None), Poem, US
- IN: The Opposite House (2007) Fiction, British
EPIGRAPH: There’s been a Death, in the Opposite House,
As lately as Today -
I know it, by the numb look
Such Houses have - alway -
FROM: There's been a Death, in the Opposite House, (1896), Poem, US
- Jean Rhys (1)
- IN: Good morning, Midnight (1939) Fiction, American
EPIGRAPH: Good morning, Midnight!
I'm coming home,
Day got tired of me -
How could I of him?
Sunshine was a sweet place,
I liked to stay --
But Morn didn't want me -- now --
So good night, Day!
FROM: "Good Morning, Midnight", (1929), Poem, US
- James Robertson (1)
- IN: The Professor of Truth (2013) Fiction, American
EPIGRAPH: The distance that the dead have gone
Does not at first appear;
Their coming back seems possible
For many an ardent year.
And then, that we have followed them
We more than half suspect,
So intimate have we become
With their dear retrospect.
FROM: "Part Four: Time and Eternity", (1924), Poem, US
- Jon Raymond (1)
- IN: Free Bird (2017) Fiction, American
EPIGRAPH: Death is the Wealth / Of the Poorest Bird
FROM: "Death is the Wealth", (None), Poem, US
- Samantha Shannon (1)
- IN: The Song Rising (2017) Fiction, American
EPIGRAPH: Silence is all we dread.
There's Ransom in a Voice --
FROM: "Silence is all we dread", (1945), Poem, US
- Thomas Sweterlitsch (1)
- IN: Tomorrow and Tomorrow (2014) Fiction, American
EPIGRAPH: There is a pain -- so utter --
It swallows substance up --
Then covers the Abyss with Trance --
So Memory can step
Around -- across -- opon it --
As One within a Swoon --
Goes safely -- where an open eye --
Would drop Him -- Bone by Bone --
FROM: "There is a pain -- so utter --", (1929), Poem, US
- Naomi J. Williams (2)
- IN: Land Falls (2015) Fiction, NULL
EPIGRAPH: Exultation is the going
Of an inland soul to sea,
Past the houses -- past the headlands --
Into deep Eternity --
Bred as we, among the mountains,
Can the sailor understand
The divine intoxication
Of the first league out from land?
FROM: "Exultation is the going", (1890), Poem, US
- IN: Landfalls (2015) Fiction, NULL
EPIGRAPH: Exultation is the going
Of an island soul to sea,
Past the houses -- past the headlands --
Into deep Eternity --
Bred as we, among the mountains,
Can the sailor understand
The divine intoxication
Of the first league out from land?
FROM: Exultation is the going, (1627), Poem, US
- Thomas Williams (1)
- IN: The Hair of Harold Roux (1996) Fiction, American
EPIGRAPH: Men do not sham convulsion,
Nor simulate a throe.
FROM: "I like a Look of Agony", (1890), Poem, US
- Michael Lee West (1)
- IN: Mermaids in the Basement (2008) Fiction, American
EPIGRAPH: I started Early -- Took my Dog --
And visited the Sea --
The Mermaids in the Basement
Came out to look at me --
FROM: "I Started Early -- Took my Dog", (1891), Poem, US
- David Trueba (1)
- IN: Blitz (2016) Fiction, NULL
EPIGRAPH: As Lightning to the Children eased
With explanation kind
The truth must dazzle gradually
Or every man be blind --
FROM: "Tell all the truth but tell it slant", (1872), Poem, US
- Robert Thomas (1)
- IN: Bridge (2014) Fiction, American
EPIGRAPH: None stir the second time --
On whom I lay a Yellow Eye --
FROM: My Life had stood - a Loaded Gun -, (1929), Poem, US
- Rebecca Rasmussen (2)
- IN: Bird Sisters (2011) Fiction, American
EPIGRAPH: These are the days when Birds come back --
A very few -- a Bird or two --
To take a backward look.
FROM: These are the days when Birds come back, (1890), Poem, US
- IN: The Bird Sisters (2011) Fiction, American
EPIGRAPH: These are the days when Birds come back --
A very few -- a Bird or two --
To take a backward look.
FROM: These are the days when Birds come back, (1890), Poem, US
- Christopher Radmann (1)
- IN: The Crack (2014) Fiction, British
EPIGRAPH: To fill a Gap
Insert the Thing that caused it --
Block it up
With Other -- and 'twill yawn the more --
You cannot solder an Abyss
With Air.
FROM: "To fill a Gap", (1929), Poem, US
- Dean Koontz (1)
- IN: The Husband (2012) Fiction, American
EPIGRAPH: That Love is all there is,
Is all we know of Love….
FROM: That Love is all there is, (1914), Poem, US
- Heidi Pitlor (1)
- IN: The Daylight Marriage (2015) Fiction, American
EPIGRAPH: Home is so far from Home.
FROM: Away from Home are some and I, (1864), Poem, US
- Sue Peebles (1)
- IN: The Death of Lomond Friel (2010) Fiction, British
EPIGRAPH: Hope is the thing with feathers
That perches in the soul,
And sings the tune without the words,
And never stops at all.
FROM: #254, (1891), Poem, US
- O' Riordan, Kate (1)
- IN: The Memory Stones (2003) Fiction, British
EPIGRAPH: At half-past three a single bird
Unto a silent sky
Propounded but a single term
Of cautious melody.
At half-past four, experiment
Had subjugated test,
And lo! her silver principle
Supplanted all the rest.
At half-past seven, element
Nor implement was seen,
And place was where the presence was,
Circumference between.
FROM: "At half-past three a single bird", (1891), Poem, US
- O' Farrell, Maggie (1)
- IN: The Vanishing Act of Esme Lennox (2006) Fiction, British
EPIGRAPH: Much Madness is a divinest Sense --
To a discerning eye --
Much Sense -- the starkest Madness --
'Tis the Majority
In this, as All, prevail --
Assent -- and you are sane --
Demur -- and you're straightaway dangerous --
And handled with a Chain --
FROM: Much Madness is divinest Sense, (1890), Poem, US
- Joyce Carol Oates (1)
- IN: Wild Nights! (2008) Fiction, American
EPIGRAPH: Wild Nights -- Wild Nights!
Were I with thee
Wild Nights should be
Our luxury!
Futile -- the Winds --
To a Heart in port --
Done with the Compass --
Done with the Chart!
Rowing in Eden --
Ah, the Sea!
Might I but moor -- Tonight --
In Thee!
FROM: #269, (1861), Poem, US
- Laura McBride (1)
- IN: We Are Called to Rise (2014) Fiction, American
EPIGRAPH: We never know how high we are
Till we are called to rise;
And then, if we are true to plan,
Our statures touch the skies --
FROM: We never know how high we are, (1896), Poem, US
- Susan Lewis (1)
- IN: No Place to Hide (2015) Fiction, British
EPIGRAPH: Hope is the thing with feathers
That perches in the soul,
And sings the tune without the words,
And never stops at all.
FROM: #254, (1891), Poem, US
- Brian Freeman (1)
- IN: Immoral (2005) Fiction, American
EPIGRAPH: The distance that the dead have gone Does not at first appear- Their coming back seems possible For many an ardent year.
FROM: Time and Eternity, (1896), Poem, US
- Le Tellier, Herve (1)
- IN: Electrico W (2011) Fiction, French
EPIGRAPH: If I can stop one heart from breaking
I shall not live in vain
If I can ease one life the aching
Or cool one pain
Or help one fainting robin
Unto his nest again
I shall not live in vain.
FROM: If I can stop one Heart from breaking, (1890), Poem, US
- Tatiana Salem Levy (1)
- IN: The House in Smyina (2007) Fiction, NULL
EPIGRAPH: They say that 'Time assuages' --
Time never did assuage --
An actual suffering strengthens
As Sinews do, with age --
Time is a Test of Trouble --
But not a Remedy --
If such it prove, it prove too
There was no Malady --
FROM: They say that Time assuages, (1896), Poem, US
- Benjamin Wood (1)
- IN: The Maid's Version (2013) Fiction, British
EPIGRAPH: A wounded deer leaps highest.
FROM: #178, (1890), Poem, US
- Karen White (1)
- IN: The Sound of Glass (2015) Fiction, American
EPIGRAPH: One need not be a chamber to be haunted,
One need not be a house;
The brain has corridors surpassing
Material place.
FROM: #407, (1891), Poem, US
- Anna Keesey (1)
- IN: Little Century (2012) Fiction, American
EPIGRAPH: Soto! Explore thyself!
Therein thyself shalt find
The "Undiscovered Continent" --
No Settler had the Mind.
FROM: NULL, (1864), Poem, US
- Jac Jemc (1)
- IN: My Only Wife (2012) Fiction, American
EPIGRAPH: That those who know her, know her less
The nearer her they get.
FROM: What mystery pervades a well!, (1896), Poem, US
- Laura Fairchild Brodie (1)
- IN: All the Truth (2012) Fiction, British
EPIGRAPH: Tell all the Truth but tell it slant
Success in Circuit lies
Too bright for our infirm Delight
The Truth's superb surprise
As Lightning to the Children eased
With explanation kind
The Truth must dazzle gradually
Or every man be blind -
FROM: #1129, (1945), Poem, US
- Marc Fitten (1)
- IN: Elza's Kitchen (2012) Fiction, American
EPIGRAPH: Take all away from me, but leave me Ecstasy,
And I am richer then than all my Fellow Men --
Ill it becometh me to dwell so wealthily
When at my very Door are those possessing more,
In abject poverty --
FROM: Take all away from me, but leave me Ecstasy, (1640), Poem, US
- Nigel Farndale (1)
- IN: The Road Between Us (2013) Fiction, British
EPIGRAPH: The heart wants what it wants, or else it does not care.
FROM: Letters from Dickinson to Mary Bowles, (1862), Letter, US
- Maureen Jennings (1)
- IN: Murdoch Mysteries: Except the Dying (2012) Fiction, NULL
EPIGRAPH: The last night that she lived
It was a common night,
Except the dying; this to us
Made nature different
FROM: The Last Night that She Lived, (1890), Poem, US
- Randy White (1)
- IN: Captiva (1996) Thriller, Mystery, Suspense, American
EPIGRAPH: Captivity is Consciousness— So's Liberty.
FROM: No Rack can torture me, (1890), Poem, US
- Sarah Creech (1)
- IN: The Whole Way Home (2017) Fiction, American
EPIGRAPH: Where Thou art -- that -- is Home
FROM: Where Thou art - that - is Home, (1929), Poem, US
- Diane Cook (1)
- IN: Man V. Nature (2014) Fiction, American
EPIGRAPH: The Wilderness is new -- to you.
Master, let me lead you.
FROM: Letter to Higginson, (1877), Letter, US
- Robyn Cadwallader (1)
- IN: The Anchoress (2015) Fiction, Australian
EPIGRAPH: Tis not that Dying hurts us so --
'Tis Living -- hurts us more --
But Dying -- is a different way --
A Kind behind the Door --
The Southern Custom -- of the Bird --
That ere the Frosts are due --
Accepts a better Latitude --
We -- are the Birds -- that stay.
FROM: Tis not that Dying hurts us so, (1945), Poem, US
- Jerome Charyn (1)
- IN: The Secret Life of Emily Dickinson (2010) Fiction, American
EPIGRAPH: To shut our eyes is Travel.
FROM: Letter to Elizabeth Holland, (1870), Letter, US
- Ann Beattie (1)
- IN: The Accomplished Guest (2017) Fiction, NULL
EPIGRAPH: The soul should always stand ajar,
That if the heaven inquire,
He will not be obliged to wait,
Or shy of troubling her.
Depart, before the host has slid
The bolt upon the door,
To seek for the accomplished guest, --
Her visitor no more.
FROM: XXXIX, (1896), Poem, US
- Jennifer Egan (1)
- IN: Invisible Circus (1995) Fiction, American
EPIGRAPH: Exultation is the going
Of an inland soul to sea,
Past the houses -- past the headlands --
Into deep Eternity---...
FROM: Exultation is the going, (1890), Poem, US
- Margaret Drabble (1)
- IN: The Waterfall (1969) Fiction, British
EPIGRAPH: Drowning is not so pitiful
As the attempt to rise.
Three times, 't is said, a sinking man
Comes up to face the skies,
And then declines forever
To that abhorred abode
Where hope and he part company,—
For he is grasped of God.
The Maker's cordial visage,
However good to see,
Is shunned, we must admit it,
Like an adversity.
FROM: Drowning is not so pitiful, (1718), Poem, US
- Ellen Wittlinger (1)
- IN: Blind Faith (2006) Fiction, American
EPIGRAPH: Parting is all we know of heaven,
And all we need of hell.
FROM: My life closed twice before its close, (1896), Poem, US
- Amanda Hocking (1)
- IN: From the Earth to the Shadows (2018) Fiction, American
EPIGRAPH: Because I could not stop for Death-
He kindly stopped for me-
The Carriage held but just Ourselves-
And Immortality.
FROM: Because I Could Not Stop for Death, (1890), Poem, US
- Christopher Wilson (2)
- IN: The Zoo (2017) Fiction, British
EPIGRAPH: Hope is the thing with feathers
That perches in the soul
And sings the tune without the words
And never stops at all
FROM: Hope is the thing with feathers, (1891), Poem, US
- IN: Zoo (2017) Fiction, British
EPIGRAPH: Hope is the thing with feathers
That perches in the soul
And sings the tune without the words
And never stops at all
FROM: Hope is a thing with feathers, (1891), Poem, US
- Emily Koch (1)
- IN: If I die Before I Wake (2018) Fiction, Mystery Fiction, British
EPIGRAPH: The Brain -- is wider than the Sky --
For -- put them side by side --
The one the other will contain
With ease -- and You -- beside --
FROM: "The Brain", (1896), Poem, US
- Max Porter (1)
- IN: Grief is the Thing with Feathers (2015) Literary Fiction, NULL
EPIGRAPH: That CROW is all there is,
Is all we know of CROW;
It is enough, the CROW should be
Proportioned to the CROW.~~
FROM: NULL, (None), Poem, US
- Anna Sheehan (1)
- IN: A Long, Long Sleep (2011) Fiction, Young Adult, American
EPIGRAPH: A long, long sleep, a famous sleep
That makes no show for dawn
By stretch of limb or stir of lid, –
An independent one.Was ever idleness like this?
Within a hut of stone
To bask the centuries away
Nor once look up for noon?
FROM: A long - long Sleep - A famous - Sleep, (1896), Poem, US
- Salem Levy, Tatiana (1)
- IN: The House in Smyrna (2014) Fiction, NULL
EPIGRAPH: They say that ‘Time assuages’—
Time never did assuage—
An actual suffering strengthens
As Sinews do, with age—
Time is a Test of Trouble—
But not a Remedy—
If such it prove, it prove too
There was no Malady—
FROM: "#85: They say that ‘Time assuages’—", (1896), Poem, US
- Marjorie Liu (1)
- IN: The Wild Road (2008) Fiction, American
EPIGRAPH: One need not be a chamber to be haunted;
One need not be a house;
The brain has corridors surpassing
Material place.
FROM: Time and Eternity, (1891), Poem, US
- Tim Winton (1)
- IN: Dirt Music (2001) Fiction, Australian
EPIGRAPH: There is a solitude of space
A solitude of sea
A solitude of death, but these
Society shall be
Compared with that profounder site
That polar privacy
A soul admitted to itself --
Finite infinity.
FROM: There is a solitude of space, (1914), Poem, US
- William Nicholson (1)
- IN: The Lovers of Amherst (2015) Fiction, British
EPIGRAPH: This is my letter to the World
That never wrote to Me --
The simple News that Nature told --
With tender Majesty --
Her Message is committed
To Hands I cannot see --
For love of Her -- Sweet -- countrymen --
Judge tenderly -- of Me
FROM: This is my letter to the World, (1862), Poem, US
- Linda Olsson (1)
- IN: A Sister in My House (2016) Fiction, NULL
EPIGRAPH: One Sister have I in our house --
And one, a hedge away.
There's only one recorded,
But both belong to me.
FROM: One Sister have I in our house, (1914), Poem, US
- Chloé Esposito (1)
- IN: Mad (2017) Fiction, NULL
EPIGRAPH: Much Madness is divinest Sense --
To a discerning Eye --
Much Sense -- the starkest Madness --
'Tis the Majority
In this, as all, prevail --
Assent, and you are sane --
Demur -- you're straightaway dangerous --
And handled with a Chain --
FROM: Much Madness is divinest Sense, (1890), Poem, US