Author: Russell Banks

Cites

• Emily Dickinson (1)
  • IN: The Sweet Hereafter (1991) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: By homely gift and hindered words The human heart is told of nothing --- "nothing" is the force That renovates the world ---
    FROM: #1563, (1883), Poem, US
• Ovid (1)
  • IN: Lost Memory of Skin (2011) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: Now I am ready to tell how bodies changed into different bodies.
    FROM: Metamorphoses, (8), Poem, Italy
• Bible (1)
  • IN: Cloudsplitter (1998) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: … and I only am escaped alone to tell thee
    FROM: Bible, Job 1:16, (-165), Bible, NULL
• Simone Weil (1)
  • IN: Affliction (1989) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: The great enigma of human life is not suffering but affliction.
    FROM: The Love of God and Affliction, (1950), Essay, France
• Kierkegaard (1)
  • IN: Hamilton Stark (1978) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: The individual has a host of shadows, all of which resemble him and for the moment have an equal claim to authenticity.
    FROM: Repetition, (1843), NULL, Denmark
• Bertolt Brecht (1)
  • IN: Trailerpark (1981) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: A certain sense of tragedy, however attractive, Is to be avoided. Though there is no need to make a dogma of that
    FROM: Epistle on Suicide, (1920), Poem, Germany
• NULL (2)
  • IN: Continental Drift (1985) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: Yun seul dwèt pas capab’ mangé gombo.
    FROM: NULL, (None), NULL, NULL
  • IN: Relation of My Imprisonment (1984) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: Remember death.
    FROM: NULL, (None), NULL, NULL
• Wallace Stevens (1)
  • IN: Continental Drift (1985) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: I am free. High above the mast the moon Rides clear of her mind and the waves make a refrain Of this: that the snake has shed its skin upon The floor. Go on through the darkness. The waves fly back.
    FROM: Farewell to Florida, (None), Poem, US
• Northrup (1)
  • IN: Continental Drift (1985) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: Harper’s Creek and roarin’ ribber, Thar, my dear, we’ll live forebber; Den we’ll go de Ingin nation, All I want in dis creation Is pretty little wife and big plantation.
    FROM: Twelve Years a Slave, (1853), Book, US
• Charles Baudelaire (1)
  • IN: The Reserve (2008) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: I am beautiful as a dream of stone.
    FROM: Beauty, (None), Poem, France
• Rilke (1)
  • IN: The Angel on the Roof (1999) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: Every angel is terrifying.
    FROM: The Duino Elegies, (1923), Elegies, Bohemia/Austria
• Laurence Sterne (1)
  • IN: Outer Banks (2008) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: A poor prince who is weak in cavalry, and whose whole infantry does not exceed a single man, had best quit the field; and signalize himself in the cabinet, if he can get up into it — I say up into it — for there is no descending perpendicular amongst ’em with a “Me voici! mes infants”—here I am — whatever many may think.
    FROM: A Sentimental Journey, (1768), NULL, Ireland/England