Author: Galway Kinnell

Cited by

• Julia Pierpont (1)
  • IN: Among the Ten Thousand Things (2015) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: Little sleep's-head sprouting hair in the moonlight, when I come back we will go out together, we will walk out together among the ten thousand things, each scratched too late with such knowledge, the wages of dying is love.
    FROM: "Little Sleep's-Head Sprouting Hair in the Moonlight", (1971), Poem, US
• Alexander Maksik (1)
  • IN: Shelter In Place (2016) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: For us back then, to live seemed almost to die.
    FROM: "Astonishment", (2012), Poem, US
• Jodi Picoult (1)
  • IN: Vanishing Acts (2005) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: Sometimes it is necessary To reteach a thing its loveliness
    FROM: St. Francis and the Sow, (1980), Poem, US
• Rachel Cantor (1)
  • IN: Good on Paper (2016) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: How many nights must it take one such as me to learn that we aren't after all, made from that bird which flies out of its ashes, that for a man as he goes up in flames, his one work is to open himself, to be the flames?
    FROM: "Another Night in the Ruins" (Body Rags), (1968), Poem, US