Author: Medbh McGuckian

Cites

• James (Jemmy) Hope (1)
  • IN: Shelmalier (1998) Poetry, Irish
    EPIGRAPH: Physical force may prevail for a time... but there is music in the sound of moral force which will be heard like the sound of the cuckoo. The bird lays its eggs, and leaves them for a time; but it will come again and hatch them in due course, and the song will return with the season.
    FROM: The Autobiography Of James Hope United Irishman, (2001), Book, Ireland
• George Santayana (1)
  • IN: My Love has Fared Inland (2008) Fiction, Irish
    EPIGRAPH: It is when sound abandons the servile fuction of signification and develops itself freely as music, that is becomes thoroughly vital and its own excuse for being.
    FROM: Dominations and Powers: Reflections on Liberty, Society, and Government, (1951), Book, Spain
• Pablo Picasso (1)
  • IN: Captain Lavender (1991) NULL, Irish
    EPIGRAPH: I have not painted the war... but I have no doubt that the war is in... these paintings I have done.
    FROM: Conversation, (1944), Conversation, Spain

Cited by

• Michael Longley (1)
  • IN: Snow Water (2004) Fiction, Irish
    EPIGRAPH: ...the sparks of his father curved into the west of the lake...
    FROM: NULL, (None), NULL, UK