Author: Mary Gordon

Cites

• Rainer Rilke (1)
  • IN: The Love of My Youth (2012) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: We have come this far This is given to us, to touch each other in this way
    FROM: Second Duino Elegy, (1923), Poem, Austria
• Bible (1)
  • IN: There Your Heart Lies (2017) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: Therefore where your treasure is, there also your heart lies.
    FROM: Bible, Matthew 6:21, (100), Bible, NULL
• W. H. Auden (1)
  • IN: The Company of Women (1980) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: What draws singular lives together in the first place, loneliness, lust, ambition, or mere convenience, is obvious, why they drop or murder one another clear enough: how they create, though, a common world between them, like Bombelli's impossible yet useful numbers, no one has yet explained. Still, they do managed to forgive impossible behavior, to endure by some mircale conversational tics and larval habits without wincing... The ogre will come in any case: so Joyce has warned us. Howbeit, fasting or feasting, we both know this: without the Spirit we die, but life without the Letter is in the worst of taste, and always, though truth and love can never really differ, when they seem to, the subaltern should be truth.
    FROM: "The Common Life", (1963), Poem, US/England