Author: Matthew Plampin

Cites

• Baron N. Wrangel (1)
  • IN: Illumination (2013) Fiction, British
    EPIGRAPH: I no longer remember what Bakunin said, and it would in any case scarely be possible to reproduce it. His speech was elemental and incandescent -- a raging storm with lightning flashes and thunderclaps, and a roaring of lions. The man was a born speaker made for the revolution. If he had asked his hearers to cut each other's throats, they would have cheerfully obeyed him.
    FROM: The Memoirs of Baron N. Wrangel, (1927), Book, Russia
• Voltaire (1)
  • IN: Illumination (2013) Fiction, British
    EPIGRAPH: It is not enough to conquer; one must also know how to seduce.
    FROM: NULL, (None), NULL, France
• William Blake (1)
  • IN: Will and Tom (2015) Fiction, British
    EPIGRAPH: The enquiry in England is not whether a man has talents and genius, but whether he is passive and polite and a virtuous ass, and obedient to noblemen's opinions in art and science. If he is, he is a good man: if not, he must be starved.
    FROM: Jerusalem, Selected Poems, and Prose, (1970), Book, UK