Author: Thomas Wolfe

Cites

• John Donne (1)
  • IN: Look Homeward, Angel (1929) Bildungsroman, American
    EPIGRAPH: "Then, as all my soules bee, Emparadis'd in you, (in whom alone I understand, and growand see,) The rafters of my body,bone Being still with you, the Muscle,Sinew and Veine, Which tile the huse, will come again
    FROM: A Valediction of my Name, In the Window, (None), Poem, UK
• Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1)
  • IN: Of Time and The River (2016) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: Kennst du das Land, wo die Zitronen bluhn, Im dunkeln Laub die Gold-Orangen gluhn, Ein sanfter Wind vom blauen Himmel weht, Die Myrte still und hoch der Lorbeer steht, Kennst du es wohl? Dahin! Dahin Mocht' ich mit dir, O mein Geliebter, ziehn! Kennst du das Haus, auf Saulen ruht sein Dach, Es glanzt der Saal, es schimmert das Gemach, Und Marmorbilder stehn und sehn mich an: Was hat man dir, du armes Kind, getan? Kennst du es wohl? Dahin! Dahin Mocht' ich mit dir, O mein Beschutzer, ziehn! Kennst du den Berg und seinen Wolkensteg? Das Maultier sucht im Nebel seinen Weg, in Hohlen wohnt der Drachen alte Brut, Es sturzt der Fels und uber ihn die Flut: Kennst du ihn wohl? Dahin! Dahin Geht unser Weg; O Vater, lass uns ziehn!
    FROM: Mignon's Song, (1795), NULL, Germany

Cited by

• Tim McLoughlin (1)
  • IN: Brooklyn Noir (2004) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: Dere’s no guy livin’ dat knows Brooklyn t’roo an’ t’roo, because it’d take a guy a lifetime just to find his way aroun’ duh f — town.
    FROM: Only the Dead Know Brooklyn, (1935), Short Story, US
• Stephen King (1)
  • IN: The Dark Tower I: The Gunslinger (1982) Fiction, Fantasy, Science Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: . . . a stone, a leaf, an unfound door; of a leaf, a stone, a door. And of all the forgotten faces. Naked and alone we came into exile. In her dark womb, we did not know our mother’s face; from the prison of her flesh have we come into the unspeakable and incommunicable prison of this earth. Which of us has known his brother? Which of us has looked into his father’s heart? Which of us has not remained forever prison-pent? Which of us is not forever a stranger and alone? . . . O lost, and by the wind grieved, ghost, come back again.
    FROM: Look Homeward, Angel, (1929), Novel, US
• Phillip Lewis (2)
  • IN: The Barrowfields (2017) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: O brothers, like our fathers in their time, we are burning, burning, burning in the night.
    FROM: You Can’t Go Home Again, (1940), Novel, US
• Wiley Cash (1)
  • IN: a land more kind than home (2012) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: Something has spoken to me in the night... and told me I shall die, I know not where. Saying: "[Death is] to lose the earth you know, for greater knowing; to lose the life you have, for greater life; to leave the friends you loved, for greater loving; to find a land more kind than home, more large than earth."
    FROM: You Can't Go Home Again, (1940), Novel, US
• Yasmine Galenorn (1)
  • IN: Harvest Hunting (2010) Fantasy, American
    EPIGRAPH: All things on earth point home in old October; sailors to sea, travellers to walls and fences, hunters to field and hollow and the long voice of the hounds, the lover to the love he has forsaken.
    FROM: NULL, (None), NULL, US