Author: Randall Jarrell
Cited by
- Patrick McGuinness (1)
- IN: The Last Hundred Days (2011) Fiction, British
EPIGRAPH: And yet, the ways we miss our lives are life.
FROM: A Girl in a Library, (1951), Poem, US
- James Whitfield Thomson (1)
- IN: Lies you Wanted to Hear (2013) Fiction, American
EPIGRAPH: The girl from next door, the borrowed child,
Said to me the other day, "You like children so much,
Don't you want to have some of your own?"
I couldn't believe she could say it.
I thought, "Surely you can look at me and see them."
FROM: The Lost Children, (1965), Poem, US