Author: John Montague

Cites

• NULL (1)
  • IN: Collected Poems (1995) Poetry, Irish
    EPIGRAPH: I had never known sorrow, Now it is a field I have inherited, and I till it.
    FROM: from the Afghan, (None), Proverb, Afghanistan
• George Seferis (1)
  • IN: Collected Poems (1995) Poetry, Irish
    EPIGRAPH: The Greeks say it was the Turks who burned down Smyrna. The Turks say it was the Greeks. Who will discover the Truth? The wrong has been committed. The important thing is who will redeem it?
    FROM: NULL, (None), NULL, Greece
• Hokusai (1)
  • IN: Drunken Sailor (2005) Fiction, Irish
    EPIGRAPH: At seventy-five I have understood better than the structure of nature, of animals, plants, trees, birds, fishes and insects. Consequently, at the age of eighty, I should have made more progress; at ninety, I should penetrate the mystery of things; at a hundred I should have reached a remarkable stage; and at one hundred and ten everything I do, every point and line, would be as a living thing...
    FROM: NULL, (None), NULL, Japan
• Immanuel Kant (1)
  • IN: Drunken Sailor (2005) Fiction, Irish
    EPIGRAPH: Two things fill the mind with increasing awe and reverence, the more one reflects: the starry heavens above, the moral law within.
    FROM: The Critique of Practical Reason, (1788), Book, Germany
• William Shakespeare (1)
  • IN: Smshing the Piano (2001) Fiction, Irish
    EPIGRAPH: Twixt two extremes of passion, joy and grief.
    FROM: King Lear V, (1608), Play, UK

Cited by

• Pete Hamill (1)
  • IN: A Drinking Life (2011) Memoir, American
    EPIGRAPH: Little enough I know of your struggle, although you come to me more and more, free of that heavy body armour you tried to dissolve with alcohol, a pale face staring in dream light like a fish’s belly upward to life.
    FROM: Stele for a Northern Republican, (1972), Poem, Nothern Ireland