Author: Patrick White

Cites

• Olive Schreiner (1)
  • IN: The Aunt's Story (1948) Fiction, Australian
    EPIGRAPH: She thought of the narrowness of the limits within which a human soul may speak and be understood by its nearest of mental kin, of how soon it reaches that solitary land of the individual experience, in which no fellow footfall is ever heard.
    FROM: The Story of an African Farm, (1883), Novel, South Africa
• William Wordsworth (1)
  • IN: A Fringe of Leaves (1976) Fiction, Australian
    EPIGRAPH: A perfect WOman, nobly planned, To warn, to comfort, and command.
    FROM: She Was a Phantom of Delight, (1807), Poem, UK
• Henrik Ibsen (1)
  • IN: A Fringe of Leaves (1976) Fiction, Australian
    EPIGRAPH: Rat-Wife: Humbly begging pardon - are your worships troubled with any gnawing things in the house? Almers: Here? No, I don't think so. Rat-Wide: If you had, it would be such a pleasure to rid your worships' house of them. Rita: Yes, yes, we understand. But we have nothing of the sort here.
    FROM: Little Eyolf, (1894), Play, Norway
• Simone Weil (1)
  • IN: A Fringe of Leaves (1976) Fiction, Australian
    EPIGRAPH: If there is some true good in a man, it can only be unknown to himself.
    FROM: First and Last Notebooks: Supernatural Knowledge, (1970), Book, France
• Louis Aragon (1)
  • IN: A Fringe of Leaves (1976) Fiction, Australian
    EPIGRAPH: Love is your last chance. There is really nothing else on earth to keep you there.
    FROM: NULL, (None), NULL, France
• Paul Éluard (1)
  • IN: The Solid Mandala (1969) Fiction, Australian
    EPIGRAPH: There is another world, but it is in this one.
    FROM: Œuvres complètes, vol. 1, Gallimard, (1968), Book, France
• Meister Eckhart (1)
  • IN: The Solid Mandala (1969) Fiction, Australian
    EPIGRAPH: It is not outside, it is inside: wholly within.
    FROM: Sermons, (None), Religious Text, Germany
• Patrick Anderson (1)
  • IN: The Solid Mandala (1969) Fiction, Australian
    EPIGRAPH: ...yet still I long for my twin in the sun...
    FROM: NULL, (None), NULL, NULL
• Fyodor Dostoevsky (1)
  • IN: The Solid Mandala (1969) Fiction, Australian
    EPIGRAPH: It was an old and rather poor church, many of the ikons were without settings, but such churces are the best for praying sin.
    FROM: The Brothers Karamazov, (1880), Novel, Russia
• Ben Nicholson (1)
  • IN: The Vivisector (1986) Fiction, Australian
    EPIGRAPH: As I see it, painting and religious experience are the same thing, and what we are all searching for is the understanding and realization of infinity.
    FROM: Ben Nicholson: The Years of Experiment 1919-39, exh. cat., (1983), Book, UK
• William Blake (1)
  • IN: The Vivisector (1986) Fiction, Australian
    EPIGRAPH: Cruelty has a Human Heart, And Jealousy a Human Face; Terror the Human Form Divine, And Secrecy the Human Dress. The Human Dress is forged in Iron, The Human Form a fiery Forge, The Human Face a Furnace seal’d, The Human Heart its hungry Gorge.
    FROM: A Divine Image, (1989), Poem, UK
• Saint Augustine (1)
  • IN: The Vivisector (1986) Fiction, Australian
    EPIGRAPH: They love truth when it reveals itself, and they hate it when it reveals themselves.
    FROM: The Confessions, (400), Book, Italy
• Rimbaud (1)
  • IN: The Vivisector (1986) Fiction, Australian
    EPIGRAPH: He becomes beyond all others the great Invalid, the great Criminal, the great Accused One—and the Supreme Knower. For he reaches the unknown.
    FROM: NULL, (None), NULL, France
• No play (1)
  • IN: The Eye of the Storm (1973) Fiction, Australian
    EPIGRAPH: I was given by chance this human body so difficult to wear.
    FROM: NULL, (None), NULL, NULL
• Kawabata (1)
  • IN: The Eye of the Storm (1973) Fiction, Australian
    EPIGRAPH: He felt what could have been a tremor of heaven's own perverse love.
    FROM: One Arm, (1964), Short Story, Japan
• David Campbell (1)
  • IN: The Eye of the Storm (1973) Fiction, Australian
    EPIGRAPH: Men and boughs break; Praise life while you walk and wake; It is only lent.
    FROM: The Return of the Captain, (None), Poem, Australia
• Boake. Bargroft (1)
  • IN: The Hanging Garden (1957) Fiction, Australian
    EPIGRAPH: Out on the wastes of the Never-Never, That's where the dead men lie! That's where the heat-waves dance for ever - That's where the dead men lie!
    FROM: Where the Dead Men Lie, (1891), Poem, Australia
• Patrick White (1)
  • IN: The Hanging Garden (1957) Fiction, Australian
    EPIGRAPH: Human relationships are vast as deserts
    FROM: Voss, (1957), Novel, Australia

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• Patrick White (1)
  • IN: The Hanging Garden (1957) Fiction, Australian
    EPIGRAPH: Human relationships are vast as deserts
    FROM: Voss, (1957), Novel, Australia