Author: Philip Pullman
Cites
- Philip Pullman (1)
- IN: The Ruby in the Smoke (1985) Fiction, Mystery Fiction, Young Adult Fiction, British
EPIGRAPH: "Stories are the most important thing in the world. Without stories, we wouldn't be human beings at all."
FROM: The Golden Compass, (1995), Novel, UK
- John Milton (2)
- IN: The Golden Compass (1995) Fiction, Fantastical Fiction, British
EPIGRAPH: Into this wild abyss,
The womb of nature and perhaps her grave,
Of neither sea, nor shore, nor air, nor fire,
But all these in their pregnant causes mixed
Confusedly, and which thus must ever fight,
Unless the almighty maker them ordain
His dark materials to create more worlds,
Into this wild abyss the wary fiend
Stood on the brink of hell
and looked a while,
Pondering his voyage...
FROM: Paradise Lost, Book II, (1667), Poem, UK
- IN: Northern Lights (1995) Fiction, Young Adult Fiction, British
EPIGRAPH: Into this wild abyss,
The womb of nature and perhaps her grave,
Of neither sea, nor shore, nor air, nor fire.
But all these in their pregnant causes mixed
Confusedly, and which thus must ever fight,
Unless the almighty maker them ordain
His dark materials to create more worlds,
Into this wild abyss the wary fiend
Stood on the brink of hell and looked a while,
Pondering his voyage...
FROM: Paradise Lost, (1667), Poem, UK
- Robert Grant (1)
- IN: The Amber Spyglass (2000) Fiction, Fantastical Fiction, British
EPIGRAPH: O tell of his might, O sing of his grace,
Whose robe is the light, whose canopy sprace;
His chariots of wrath the deep thunder clouds form,
And dark is his path on the wings of the storm.
FROM: O Worship the King All Glorious Above, (1833), Song, UK
- Rainer Maria Rilke (1)
- IN: The Amber Spyglass (2000) Fiction, Fantastical Fiction, British
EPIGRAPH: O stars,
isn't it from your that the lover's desire for the face
of his beloved arises? Doesn't his secret insight
into her pure features come from the pure constellations?
FROM: The Third Duino Elegy, (1923), Poem, Bohemia
- John Ashbery (2)
- IN: The Amber Spyglass (2000) Fiction, Fantasy Fiction, British
EPIGRAPH: Fine vapors escape from whatever is doing the living.
The night is cold and delicate and full of angels
Pouding down the living. The factories are all lit up.
The chime goes unheard.
We are together at last, though far apart.
FROM: "The Ecclesiast", (1966), Poem, US
- William Blake (1)
- IN: The Amber Spyglass (2000) Fiction, Fantasy Fiction, British
EPIGRAPH: The morning comes, the night decays, the watchmen leave their stations;
The grave is burst, the spices shed, the linen wrapped up;
The bones of death, the cov'ring clay the sinews shrunk & dry’d
Reviving shake, inspiring move, breathing, awakening,
Spring like redeemed captives when their bonds & bars are burst.
Let the slave grinding at the mill run out into the field,
Let him look up into the heavens & laugh in the bright air;
Let the inchained soul, shut up in darkness and in sighing,
Whose face has never seen a smile in thirty weary years,
Rise and look out; his chains are loose, his dungeon doors are open;
And let his wife and children return from the oppressor’s scourge.
They look behind at every step & believe it is a dream,
Singing: “The Sun has let his blackness & has found a fresher morning,
And the fair Moon rejoices in the clear & cloudless night;
For Empire is no more, and now the Lion & Wolf shall cease.”
FROM: "America: A Prophecy”, (1793), Book, UK
- Ranier Maria Rilke (1)
- IN: The Amber Spyglass (2000) Fiction, Fantasy Fiction, British
EPIGRAPH: O stars,
isn’t it from you that the lover’s desire for the face
of his beloved arises? Doesn’t his secret insight
into her pure features come from pure constellations?
FROM: "The Third Elegy", (1923), Poem, Bohemia/Austria
Cited by
- Philip Pullman (1)
- IN: The Ruby in the Smoke (1985) Fiction, Mystery Fiction, Young Adult Fiction, British
EPIGRAPH: "Stories are the most important thing in the world. Without stories, we wouldn't be human beings at all."
FROM: The Golden Compass, (1995), Novel, UK