Author: Thornton Wilder

Cites

• Thornton Niven Wilder (1)
  • IN: Heaven's My Destination (1934) Textbook, American
    EPIGRAPH: George Brush is my name; Smerica's my nation; Ludington's my dwelling-place And Heaven's my destination. (Doggerel verse which children of the middle west were accustomed to write in their schoolbooks) Of all the forms of genius, goodness has the longest awkward age.
    FROM: The Woman of Andros, (1930), Novel, US
• Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (2)
  • IN: The Ides of March (1948) Historical Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: The shudder of awe is humanity's highest faculty, Even though this world is forever altering it's values...
    FROM: Faust, part two, (1790), Play, Germany
• NULL (1)
  • IN: The Ides of March (1948) Historical Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: Gloss: Out of man's recognition in fear and awe that there is an Unkowable come sall that is best in the explorations of his mind, -- even though that recognition is often misled into superstition, enslavement and overconfidence.
    FROM: Faust, (1790), Paraphrase, NULL

Cited by

• Jennifer Longo (1)
  • IN: Six Feet Over It (2014) Fiction, Young Adult Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: There is a land of the living and a land of the dead and the bridge is love, the only survival, the only meaning.
    FROM: The Bridge of San Luis Rey, (1927), NULL, US
• Katharine Weber (1)
  • IN: Objects in Mirror Are Closer Than They Appear (1995) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: Always there lurked the fear that one's own view of truth was merely a small window in a small house.
    FROM: The Eighth Day, (1967), Novel, US
• Claire Cameron (1)
  • IN: The Bear (2014) Fiction, NULL
    EPIGRAPH: There is a land of the living and a land of the dead and the bridge is love, the only survival, the only meaning.
    FROM: The Bridge of San Luis Rey, (1927), Novel, US