I'm obsessed with picking epigraphs for my projects! I spent all of yesterday parsing through poems and passages from stories and decided on this one for my newly completed short story collection:
“…yes, there, even in the heart, where the filth is pumped in and courses and slanders and pollutes and determines. I will my will, though I may become famous for a mysterious vacancy in that department, that greenhouse.”
—Frank O’Hara, “Meditations in an Emergency”
This is the one I've chosen for my novel-in-progress:
“One night, after practice—some of you might appreciate this—I found myself standing in the unforgivable light of a grocery store, staring at my reflection in a freezer, and realizing: ‘You’re not having a bad day—this is just what you look like, now. This is who the years are making you.’”
—Will Eno, “Behold the Coach, in a Blazer, Uninsured”
Just wanted to share these quotes because I'm obsessed with them. Do you have an epigraph in mind? Does anyone else love choosing them?
“…yes, there, even in the heart, where the filth is pumped in and courses and slanders and pollutes and determines. I will my will, though I may become famous for a mysterious vacancy in that department, that greenhouse.”
—Frank O’Hara, “Meditations in an Emergency”
This is the one I've chosen for my novel-in-progress:
“One night, after practice—some of you might appreciate this—I found myself standing in the unforgivable light of a grocery store, staring at my reflection in a freezer, and realizing: ‘You’re not having a bad day—this is just what you look like, now. This is who the years are making you.’”
—Will Eno, “Behold the Coach, in a Blazer, Uninsured”
Just wanted to share these quotes because I'm obsessed with them. Do you have an epigraph in mind? Does anyone else love choosing them?
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