Author: James R. Benn

Cites

• Benito Mussolini (1)
  • IN: Blood Alone (2008) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: Blood alone moves the wheels of history.
    FROM: NULL, (1914), NULL, Italy
• Lewis Morris (1)
  • IN: A Mortal Terror (2011) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: swift there came a mortal terror; voices that I knew.
    FROM: The Epic of Hades, (1876), Book, UK
• John Milton (1)
  • IN: Death's Door (2012) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: Satan arrives at Pandemonium, in full assembly relates with boasting his success against Man; instead of applause is entertained with a general hiss by all his audience, transform'd with himself also suddenly into Serpents, according to his doom giv'n in Paradise; then deluded with a shew of the forbidden Tree springing up before them, they greedily reaching to take of the Fruit, chew dust and bitter ashes.
    FROM: Paradise Lost, (1667), Poem, UK
• William Butler Yeats (1)
  • IN: Rag and Bone (2010) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: Now that my ladder's gone I must lie down where all the ladders start In the foul rag and bone shop of the heart.
    FROM: "The Circus Animals' Desertion", (1939), Poem, Ireland