Author: John Banville

Cites

• Catherine Cleave (2)
  • IN: Ancient Light (2012) Fiction, Irish
    EPIGRAPH: The Bud is in flower. Mud is Brown. I feel as fit as a Flea. things can go wrong.
    FROM: in childhood, (2012), Fictional, NULL
• Catullus (1)
  • IN: Birchwood (1973) Fiction, Irish
    EPIGRAPH: Odi et amo: quare id faciam, fortasse requiris. Nescio, sed fieri sentio et excrucior. ( I hate and I love; ask how? I cannot tell you. Only I feel it, and I am torn in two.)
    FROM: Catullus 85, (-65), Poem, Italy
• Wallace Stevens (3)
  • IN: Dr Copernicus (1976) Fiction, Irish
    EPIGRAPH: You must become an ignorant man again / And see the sun again with an ignorant eye / And see it clearly in the idea of it.
    FROM: Notes Towards a Supreme Fiction, (1942), Poem, UK
  • IN: The Blue Guitar (2015) Fiction, Irish
    EPIGRAPH: Things as they are, Are changed upon the blue guitar
    FROM: "The Man with the Blue Guitar", (1937), Poem, US
  • IN: Doctor Copernicus (1976) Fiction, Irish
    EPIGRAPH: You must become an ignorant man again And see the sun again with an ignorant eye And see it clearly in the idea of it.
    FROM: "Notes Toward a Supreme Fiction", (1942), Poem, US
• Martha and Roche, Lucy Wainwright Wainwright (1)
  • IN: Long Lankin (1984) Fiction, Irish
    EPIGRAPH: My lady came down she was thinking no harm / Long Lankin stood ready to catch her in his arm
    FROM: Long Lankin, (2015), Song, US/ Canada
• Isaac Newton (1)
  • IN: The Newton Letter (1982) Fiction, Irish
    EPIGRAPH: I seem to have been only as a boy playing on the sea-shore, and diverting myself in now and then finding a smoother pebble or a prettier shell than ordinary, whilst the great ocean of truth lay all undiscovered before me.
    FROM: Anecdotes, observations, and characters, of books and men--contributed by Andrew Michael Ramsey, (1727), Book, UK
• Friedrich Nietzsche (1)
  • IN: Shroud (2002) Fiction, Irish
    EPIGRAPH: We set up a word at the point at which our ignorance begins, at which we can see no further, e.g. the word 'I', the word 'do', the word 'suffer', -- these are perhaps the horizon of our knowledge, but not truth.
    FROM: The Will to Power, (1901), Book, Germany

Cited by

• Dennis Bock (1)
  • IN: Going Home Again (2013) Fiction, NULL
    EPIGRAPH: Move on, move on, as we are directed to do at the scene of an accident, or a crime.
    FROM: Ancient Light, (2012), Novel, Ireland