Author: Stephen Dunn

Cited by

• Gabrielle Zevin (2)
  • IN: In the Age of Love And Chocolate (2013) Fiction, Young Adult Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: Often a sweetness comes as if on loan, stays just long enough to make sense of what it means to be alive, then returns to its dark source. As for me, I don't care where it's been, or what bitter road it's traveled to come so far, to taste so good.
    FROM: Sweetness, (1989), Poem, US
  • IN: In the Age of Love and Chocolate (2013) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: Often a sweetness comes as if on loan, stays just long enough to make sense of what it means to be alive, then returns to its dark source. As for me, I don’t care where it’s been, or what bitter road it’s traveled to come so far, to taste so good.
    FROM: "Sweetness", (1987), Poem, US
• Thomas H. Cook (1)
  • IN: Red Leaves (2005) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: Oh, return to zero, the master said. Use what's lying around the house. Make it simple and sad.
    FROM: Visiting the Master, (1999), Poem, US
• Drew Perry (1)
  • IN: Kids These Days (2014) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: May you turn stone, my daughter, into silk. May you make men better than they are.
    FROM: Waiting with Two Members of a Motorcycle Gang for My Child to Be Born, (1976), Poem, US
• Naomi J. Williams (2)
  • IN: Land Falls (2015) Fiction, NULL
    EPIGRAPH: A man finds his shipwrecks, tells himself the necessary stories.
    FROM: "Odysseus's Secret", Different Hours, (2000), Book, US
  • IN: Landfalls (2015) Fiction, NULL
    EPIGRAPH: A man finds his shipwrecks, tells himself the necessary stories.
    FROM: "Odysseus's Secret", Different Hours, (1627), NULL, US