Author: Felix Cheong

Cites

• Dante Alighieri (1)
  • IN: Broken by the Rain (2004) Poetry, Singaporean
    EPIGRAPH: ...for the ruinous fault of gluttony, as you see, / I am broken by the rain and I, in my misery, / am not alone, for these endure / the same penalty for the same fault.
    FROM: Inferno, (1472), Epic poem, Italy
• Pablo Neruda (2)
  • IN: Broken by the Rain (2004) Poetry, Singaporean
    EPIGRAPH: When this problem has been thoroughly explored, / I am going to school myself so well in things / That, when I try to explain my problems, / I shall speak, not of self, but of geography.
    FROM: We Are Many, (1967), Poem, Chile
• Agatha Christie (1)
  • IN: Singapore Siu Dai 2: The SG Conversation Upsize! (2014) Novel, Singaporean
    EPIGRAPH: It is a curious thought, / but it is only when you see people looking ridiculous / that you realise just how much you love them.
    FROM: An Autobiography, (1977), Book, UK
• Marcello Gleiser (1)
  • IN: I Watch the Stars Go Out (1999) Poetry, Singaporean
    EPIGRAPH: For stars heavier than eight times our sun, the enormous pressure due to gravity will fuse even heavier elements at the core. The star then explodes with tremendous fury.
    FROM: The Dancing Universe, (1997), Book, Brazil
• Robert Romanyshyn (1)
  • IN: Vanishing Point (2012) Fiction, Singaporean
    EPIGRAPH: As we approach the vanishing point, the body increasingly becomes a matter of the head...The human body is taken up into the heady eye of mind.
    FROM: The Window and the Camera, (1989), Book, NULL