Author: Sally Beauman

Cites

• Czesław Miłosz (1)
  • IN: Rebecca's Tale (2001) Fiction, British
    EPIGRAPH: We were riding through frozen fields in a wagon at dawn. / A red wing rose in the darkness. / And suddenly, a hare ran across the road. / One of us pointed to it with his hand. // That was long ago. Today, neither of them is alive / Not the hare, nor the man who made the gesture. // O my love, where are they, where are they going . The flash of a hand, streak of movement, rustle of pebbles. / I ask not out of sorrow, but in wonder.
    FROM: Encounter, (1936), Poem, Poland
• Sylvia Plath (1)
  • IN: Rebecca's Tale (2001) Fiction, British
    EPIGRAPH: They thought death was worth it, but I / Have a self to recover, a queen. / Is she dead, is she sleeping? / Where has she been, / With her lion-red body, her wings of glass? // Now she is flying / More terrible than she ever was, red / Scar in the sky, red comet / Over the engine that killed her -- / The mausoleum, the wax house.
    FROM: Stings, (1963), Poem, US
• Gustave Flaubert (1)
  • IN: The Visitors (2014) Fiction, British
    EPIGRAPH: Here we are in Egypt, land of the Pharaohs, land of the Ptolemies, country of Cleopatra (as one says in high style)... What to say? What would you like me to write? I have hardly got over the first bedazzlement. It is like being thrown, fast asleep, into the middle of a Beethoven symphony...
    FROM: Letter to Dr Jules Cloquet, (1850), Letter, France