The epigraph from Rilke sets the tone: We are all falling .

The book's epigraph is from Marcel Proust and it is brilliantly chosen.

No wonder the novel's epigraph comes from Sir Gawain and the Green Knight.

This would also explain the remarks quoted in the epigraph.

The American Farmer might have used Cotton's Retirement for an epigraph on his title-page:-

Come, let us see this epigraph, 'Laon's Vision of Cythna,'

But the wall had been lately whitewashed, and the whitewash had obliterated the expected epigraph.

Don't use a quote from Dante as an epigraph.

The film's epigraph quotes Isaiah, who prophetically announced that 'by His wounds are we healed'.

The head is well cut; the features have individuality and expression; the epigraph is sufficiently legible.

As epigraph to Europe there were these lines:-

Let Carlyle's sentence be our epigraph on Voltaire:-

Do you know Wagner's epigraph "Fur Carl Tausig's Grab"?

It soon became clear that the book's epigraph, by the Uruguayan writer Eduardo Galeano, had secured our audience.

His enigmatic title derives from a quote from George Eliot's Middlemarch, which also serves as an unlikely epigraph.

The epigraph of Burke's pamphlet, was 'Blow ye the trumpet in Zion.' Its effect corresponded with its epigraph.