Author: Jack London
Cites
- NULL (1)
- IN: Tales of the Pacific (1989) Fiction, American
EPIGRAPH: The coral waxes, the palm grows, but man departs.
FROM: Tahitian proverb, (None), Proverb, Tahiti, French Polynesia
- John Myers O'Hara (2)
- IN: The Call of the Wild and White Fang (2017) Fiction, American
EPIGRAPH: Old longings nomadic leap,
Chafing at custom's chain;
Again from its brumal sleep
Wakens the ferine strain.
FROM: "Atavism", (1902), Poem, US
- IN: The Call of the Wild (1903) Adventure Novel, American
EPIGRAPH: “Old longings nomadic leap,
Chafing at custom;’s chain;
Again from its brumal sleep
Wakens the feline strain.”
FROM: Atavism, (1902), Poem, US
- George Sterling (1)
- IN: Hearts of Three (1920) Fiction, American
EPIGRAPH: Do ye seek for fun and fortune? Listen, rovers, now to me! Look ye for them on the ocean: Ye shall fin them on the sea.
FROM: Back to Back Against the Mainmast, (1916), Poem, US
- Alfred Tennyson (1)
- IN: The Iron Heel (1908) Fiction, American
EPIGRAPH: At first, this Earth, a stage so gloomed with woe
You almost sicken at the shifting of the scenes.
And yet be patient. Our Playwright may show
In some fifth act what this Wild Drama means.
FROM: Demeter, and other Poems, "The Play", (1889), Poem, UK
- Rudyard Kipling (1)
- IN: The Cruise of the Snark (1911) Fiction, American
EPIGRAPH: ~~Yes have heard the beat of the offshore wind,
And the thresh of the deep-sea rain;
You have heard the song -- how long! how long!
Pull out on the trail again!
FROM: L'Envoi, (1919), Poem, UK
Cited by
- Christopher & Lebbon, Tim Golden (1)
- IN: The Wild (2011) Fiction, Young Adult Fiction, American
EPIGRAPH: The function of man is to live, not to exist.
FROM: NULL, (1916), NULL, US
- Ishmael Reed (1)
- IN: Japanese by Spring (1993) Fiction, American
EPIGRAPH: It was at Fort Yukon that White Fang saw his first white men. As compared with the Indians he had known, they were to him another race of beings, a race of superior gods.
FROM: White Fang, (1906), Novel, US