Author: George Szirtes
Cites
- Marvin Bell (1)
- IN: Reel (2004) Fiction, British
EPIGRAPH: To watch is possible: therefore you must watch.
FROM: Ode to Himself, (1967), Poem, UK
- Wallace Stevens (1)
- IN: New & Collected Poems (2008) Poetry, British
EPIGRAPH: Look round you as you start, brown moon,
At the book and shoe, the rotted rose
At the door.
FROM: God is Good, It is a Beautiful Night, (1947), Poem, US
Cited by
- Linda Grant (1)
- IN: The Clothes on their Backs (2008) Fiction, British
EPIGRAPH: But this is the soul
Prepared for you, these garments that glow
In the dark and burn as fierce as coal.
FROM: Dressing, (None), Poem, UK/ Hungary
- Salman Rushdie (1)
- IN: Two Years Eight Months and Twenty-Eight Nights (2015) Fiction, American
EPIGRAPH: One is not a "believer" in fairy tales.
There is no theology, no body of dogma, no ritual, no institution, no expectation for a form of behavior. They are about the unexpectedness and mutability of the world.
FROM: NULL, (None), NULL, UK