Author: Johannes Brahms
Cited by
- Curtis White (1)
- IN: Requiem (2001) Fiction, American
EPIGRAPH: Life takes more from one than death does.
FROM: Letter to Clara Schumann, (1856), Letter, Germany
- Anya Allyn (1)
- IN: Dollhouse (2012) Fiction, Young Adult Fiction, Australian
EPIGRAPH: Good evening, good night,
With rose adorned,
With carnations covered,
Slip under the covers.
Tomorrow morning, if God wants so,
you will wake once again.
FROM: Cradle Song, (1868), Song, Germany
- Charles Baxter (1)
- IN: Saul and Patsy (2003) Fiction, American
EPIGRAPH: I very much wanted to manage in that first movement without using trombones, and tried to. .
But. . I must confess to you that I am a profoundly melancholy man, that black wings flap incessantly above us. . no — I must have my trombones.
FROM: Johannes Brahms, in a letter to Vincenz Lachner, (1879), Letter, Germany