Author: Naomi Aldermann
Cites
- W. H. Auden (1)
- IN: The Liars Gospel (2012) Fiction, British
EPIGRAPH: In Breughel's Icarus, for instance: how everything turns away
Quite leisurely from the disaster; the ploughman may
Have heard the splash, the forsaken cry,
But for him it was not an important failure.
FROM: Musée des Beaux Arts, (1939), Poem, UK