Author: Thomas H. Cook
Cites
- Thomas Gray (1)
- IN: The Crime of Julian Wells (2012) Fiction, American
EPIGRAPH: The Curfew tolls the Knell of parting Day,
The lowing Herd winds slowly o'er the Lea,
The Plow-man homeward plods his weary Way,
And leaves the World to Darkness, and to me.
FROM: Elegy Written in a Country Church-Yard, (1751), Poem, UK
- Jean-Paul Sartre (1)
- IN: Blood Innocents (1980) Fiction, American
EPIGRAPH: At the beginning of everything there is first of all refusal.
FROM: , (None), NULL, France
- Lord Herbert of Cherbury (1)
- IN: The Chatham School Affair (1996) Fiction, American
EPIGRAPH: Sine qua non
He sees enough who doth his darkness see.
FROM: To His Mistress for her True Picture, (1628), Poem, UK
- Goethe (1)
- IN: The Orchids (1982) Fiction, American
EPIGRAPH: Day’s Eden brightness still relieving
The awful Night’s intense profound …
FROM: Faust, (1790), Play, Germany
- Stephen Dunn (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
- Dylan Thomas (1)
- IN: Sacrificial Ground (1988) Fiction, American
EPIGRAPH: After the first death, there is no other.
FROM: A Refusal to Mourn the Death by Fire, of a child in London, (1945), Poem, UK
- Homer (1)
- IN: Master of the delta (2008) Fiction, American
EPIGRAPH: Look you now, how ready mortals are to blame the gods.
It is from us, they say, that evils come,
But they even of themselves, through their own blind folly,
Have sorrows beyond that which is ordained.
FROM: The Odyssey, (-750), Poem, Greece
- John Ruskin (1)
- IN: A Dancer in the Dust (2014) Fiction, American
EPIGRAPH: What we think, or what we know, or what we believe is, in the end, of little consequence. The only consequence is what we do.
FROM: The Crown of Wild Olives, (1866), Essay, UK
- Thomas H. Cook (1)
- IN: A Dancer in the Dust (2014) Fiction, American
EPIGRAPH: The crimes of evil are well known to history. It is the crimes of goodness that go largely unrecorded.
FROM: Martine Aubert, Open Letter to Foreign Friends, (2014), Author, NULL
- Alexander Pope (2)
- IN: The Fate of Katherine Carr (2009) Fiction, American
EPIGRAPH: All Nature is but Art, unknown to thee;
All Chance, Direction, which thou canst not see;
All Discord, Harmony not understood
All partial Evil, universal Good.
FROM: An Essay on Man, (1734), Poem, UK
- IN: The Quest for Anna Klein (2011) Fiction, American
EPIGRAPH: And hence one master passion in the breast,
Like Aaron's serpent, swallows up the rest.
FROM: An Essay on Man, (1734), Poem, UK
- Marianne Moore (1)
- IN: The Last Talk with Lola Faye (2010) Fiction, American
EPIGRAPH: When what we hoped for came to nothing, we revived.
FROM: Elephants, (1943), Poem, US
- NULL (1)
- IN: Sandrine's Case (2013) Fiction, American
EPIGRAPH: Sandrine: a popular French female name. It is derived from Old Greek and is a shortened form of Alexandra, which means helper and defender of mankind.
FROM: The Meaning of Names, (None), Other?, NULL
Cited by
- Thomas H. Cook (1)
- IN: A Dancer in the Dust (2014) Fiction, American
EPIGRAPH: The crimes of evil are well known to history. It is the crimes of goodness that go largely unrecorded.
FROM: Martine Aubert, Open Letter to Foreign Friends, (2014), Author, NULL