Author: Peter Matthiessen

Cites

• Anna Akhmatova (1)
  • IN: In Paradise (2014) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: Everything is plundered, betrayed, sold. Death's great black wing scrapes the air, Misery gnaws to the bone. Why then do we not despair? By day, from the surrounding woods, cherries blow summer into town; at night the deep transparent skies glitter with new galaxies. And the miraculous comes so close to the ruined dirty houses -- something not known to anyone at all But wild in our breasts for centuries.
    FROM: "Everything Is Plundered...", (1921), Poem, Russia
• Jacob Riis (1)
  • IN: Shadow Country (2008) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: Look at a stone cutter hammering away at his rock, perhaps a hundred times without so much a crack showing in it. Yet at the hundred-and-first blow it will split in two, and I know it was not the last blow that did it, but all that had gone before.
    FROM: NULL, (None), NULL, US/Denmark

Cited by

• Robert Wilson (1)
  • IN: Gypsies (1988) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: One turns in all directions and sees nothing. Yet one senses that there is a source for this deep restlessness; and the path that leads there is not a path to a strange place, but a path home.
    FROM: The Snow Leopard, (1978), Book, US
• Randy Wayne White (1)
  • IN: Dead Silence (2009) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: As a child I was taught the Supernatural Powers (Taku Wakan) were powerful and could do strange things.
    FROM: Red Cloud; In the Spirit of Crazy Horse, (1903), NULL, US
• Randy White (1)
  • IN: Haunted (2014) Ghost story, Thriller, Mystery, Suspense, Crime Fiction , American
    EPIGRAPH: This world is painted on a wild dark metal.
    FROM: Shadow Country, (2008), Novel, US
• Wayne White, Randy (1)
  • IN: Haunted (2014) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: This world is painted on a wild dark metal.
    FROM: Shadow Country, (2008), Novel, NULL