Author: Paul Durcan

Cites

• Martin Heidegger (1)
  • IN: O Westport in the Light of Asia Minor (1975) Poetry, Irish
    EPIGRAPH: What has passed, has gone; What is past, will come.
    FROM: NULL, (None), NULL, Germany
• David Jones (1)
  • IN: O Westport in the Light of Asia Minor (1975) Poetry, Irish
    EPIGRAPH: from which ever child-crib within whatever enclosure demarked by a dynast or staked by consent wherever in which of the wide world-risings you must now call her but by that name which acords to the morphology of that place.
    FROM: The Tutelar of the Place, (1961), Poem, NULL
• Pope John XXIII (1)
  • IN: Teresa's Bar (1976) Poetry, Irish
    EPIGRAPH: As does any other man on earth, I come from a family and from a particular place.
    FROM: NULL, (None), NULL, Italy
• Bob Dylan (1)
  • IN: Teresa's Bar (1976) Poetry, Irish
    EPIGRAPH: Who's gonna throw that minstreel boy coin Who's gonna let it roll Who's gonna throw that minstrel boy a coin Who's gonna let if down easy to save his soul
    FROM: Minstrel Boy, (1970), Song, US
• Francis Bacon (1)
  • IN: A Snail in my Prime (1993) Poetry, Irish
    EPIGRAPH: I would like my pictures to look as if a human being had passed between them, like a snail, leaving a trail of the human presence and memory trace of past events as the snail leaves its slime.
    FROM: NULL, (1955), NULL, Ireland
• Seamus Murphy (1)
  • IN: Jesus, Break his Fall (1980) Poetry, Irish
    EPIGRAPH: What goes up when the rain comes down? Answer me that now!
    FROM: Stone Mad, (1976), Book, Ireland
• Elizabeth Bishop (1)
  • IN: Greetings to Our Friends in Brazil (1999) Poetry, Irish
    EPIGRAPH: What one seems to want in art, in experiencing it, is the same thing that is necessary for its creation, a self-forgetful, perfectly useless concentration.
    FROM: Letter from Elizabeth Bishop to Anne Stevenson, (1964), Letter, US
• Simone de Beauvoir (1)
  • IN: Daddy, Daddy (1990) Poetry, Irish
    EPIGRAPH: He liked gazing at the world, doing nothing.
    FROM: Adieux, (1981), Book, France
• Ben Corbett (1)
  • IN: Cries from an Irish Caveman (2001) Poetry, Irish
    EPIGRAPH: Ecology. Folks use that term for everything but what it means: who's eating who.
    FROM: Arctic Blue, (1993), Film, NULL
• Sophocles (1)
  • IN: Christmas Day (1996) Fiction, Irish
    EPIGRAPH: For kindness it is, that ever calls forth kindness.
    FROM: Ajax, (-450), Play, Greece
• The Talmud (1)
  • IN: The Berlin Wall Cafe (1995) Fiction, Irish
    EPIGRAPH: The world is a wedding.
    FROM: The Talmud, (500), The Talmud, NULL