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* ''Literature/VenusAmongTheFishes'' gets its title from the D.H. Lawrence poem "Whales Weep Not!"
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* ''Literature/DameFrevisse'': All of the novels have their titles fashioned like the fragments of ''Literature/TheCanterburyTales''--the formula is the + occupation/title's + tale. Four of the novels receive their titles directly from the fragments: ''The Prioress' Tale'', ''The Reeve's Tale'', ''The Squire's Tale'', and ''The Clerk's Tale''. Maybe even the first book, ''The Novice's Tale'', seeing as ''The Canterbury Tales'' has two fragments told by nuns.
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* The ''Fanfic/CorEtCerebrum'' instalment "The Furthest From Home We've Ever Been" takes its title from a line in ''Literature/TheLordOfTheRings''
* The Music/LedZeppelin songs "Misty Mountain Hop", "Ramble On", "Stairway to Heaven", "Over the Hills and Far Away" and "Battle of Evermore" all refer to people, places and situations in ''Literature/TheLordOfTheRings''.
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Despite the name, the quote need not come from literature ''per se''. Common non-literary sources for titles include political speeches, and songs (but see TitledAfterTheSong for examples of the latter). Many of these quotes will be StockQuotes. A subtrope of ShoutOut, and often accompanied by an InspirationNod.

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Despite the name, the quote need not come from literature ''per se''. Common non-literary sources for titles include political speeches, movies, and songs (but see TitledAfterTheSong for examples of the latter). Many of these quotes will be StockQuotes. A subtrope of ShoutOut, and often accompanied by an InspirationNod.
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See also CompleteTheQuoteTitle, PopCulturePunEpisodeTitle, and TitledAfterTheSong for other examples of a ShoutOut in a title.

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See also CompleteTheQuoteTitle, PopCulturePunEpisodeTitle, CompleteTheQuoteTitle and TitledAfterTheSong PopCulturePunEpisodeTitle for other examples of a ShoutOut in a title.
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Related to CompleteTheQuoteTitle and PopCulturePunEpisodeTitle, as another way that ShoutOut can be in a title.

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Related to CompleteTheQuoteTitle and See also CompleteTheQuoteTitle, PopCulturePunEpisodeTitle, as another way that and TitledAfterTheSong for other examples of a ShoutOut can be in a title.
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** ''Stamped in the Mint of Memory'' comes from the Sara Teasdale poem "Riches", poem)

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** ''Stamped in the Mint of Memory'' comes from the Sara Teasdale poem "Riches", ("Riches", poem)

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* ''Your Faults Had Made Me Love You More'', from ''Fanfic/TheAccidentalWarlordAndHisPack'' series. ('"Faults", poem)

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* ''Your Faults Had Made Me Love You More'', from Every work in the ''Fanfic/TheAccidentalWarlordAndHisPack'' series. series.
** ''With A Conquering Air'' ("Because", poem)
** ''I Would Follow Your Soul As It Leads'' ("I Would Live In Your Love", poem)
** ''O Soul, I Said, Have You No Tears?'' ("In a burying ground", poem)
** ''Only Love Proudly and Gladly and Well'' ("Child, Child", poem)
** ''I Would Beat With Your Heart As It Beats'' ("I Would Live In Your Love", poem)
** ''Live On a Hill Against the Sky'' ("Lovely Chance", poem)
** ''Never Fear the Thing You Feel'' ("Child, Child", poem)
** ''Your Wisdom and Your Waywardness'' ("Lovely Chance", poem)
** ''Your Faults Had Made Me Love You More''
('"Faults", poem)poem)
** ''Stamped in the Mint of Memory'' comes from the Sara Teasdale poem "Riches", poem)
** ''Twirl Three Notes and Make a Star'' ("Wood Song", poem)
** ''Peace Comes To Them On Quiet Feet'' ("But Not To Me", poem)
** ''Left on the Hither Side of Death'' ("Riches", poem)
** ''I Have Heart-Fire and Singing to Give'' & ''I Am Sandaled With Wind and With Flame" ("Joy", poem)
** ''The Sky Is Luminous'' ("Tonight", poem)
** ''Home Again From Far-Off Places'' ("Sunset", poem)
** ''In A Flare Of Crimson'' ("Places", poem)
** ''Holding Wonder Like a Cup'' ("Barter", poem)
** ''The Debt Is Terrible That Must Be Paid In Song'' ("Song Making", poem)
** ''My Spirit Is Still Glad Of Breath'' ("Debtor", poem)
** ''As the Unchanging, Many-Colored Sea'' ("On the Dunes", poem)
** ''Laughter and Hearts So High'' ("Oh Day Of Fire And Sun", poem)
** ''The Shadow of the Mountains Will Not Fall'' ("Water Lilies", poem)
** ''The Minting of a Gold-Crowned King'' ("The Coin", poem)
** ''Your Spirit's Secret Hides Like Gold'' ("Understanding", poem)
** ''All My World Is In Your Arms'' ("The Giver", poem)
** ''Found At Last In Meeting Eyes'' ("I Have Loved Hours At Sea", poem)
** ''Sought for the Open Sea'' ("The River", poem)
** ''Oh, Be For Me The Sky'' ("Moods", poem)
** ''The Old Wild, Restless Sorrow'' ("Ebb Tide", poem)
** ''As Constant and As Changeful'' ("On the Dunes", poem)
** ''Changeful and Iridescent Fires'' ("Driftwood", poem)
** ''The Faithful Beauty of the Stars'' ("Winter Stars", poem)
** ''Into the Light Out of Darkness'' ("The Voice", poem)
** ''New-Made Gold To Give You'' ("A November Night", poem)
** ''Breaking in Measured Thunder'' ("I Thought Of You", poem)
** ''That Is Born Out Of Agony'' ("Red Maples", poem)
** ''With Tenderness and Nobleness'' ("Houses Of Dreams", poem)
** ''Where the Flooded Water Breaks'' ("Spring Torrents", poem)
** ''I Do Not Hope To Bind The Wind'' ("Enough", poem)
** ''A House of Shining Words'' ("Refuge", poem)
** ''New Joy Will Start'' ("Child, Child", poem)
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* ''Your Faults Had Made Me Love You More'', from ''Fanfic/TheAccidentalWarlordAndHisPack'' series. ('"Faults", poem)
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* ''Webcomic/{{Unsounded}}'' (''Moby-Dick'')
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* ''Film/PerfectDays'' is titled after a song by Music/LouReed.
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* Chapter 4 of ''VisualNovel/Danganronpa2GoodbyeDespair'' is titled "Do Ultimate Robots Dream of Clockwork?"

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* UsefulNotes/NewZealand ThrashMetal band Music/AlienWeaponry's name was inspired by the film ''Film/District9'', which, much like a lot of their material, dealt with relations between Europeans and indigenous peoples (albeit through allegory).
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* "When the Bough Breaks", episode of ''Series/{{Castle}}'' ("Rockabye Baby", traditional lullaby)

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* "When the Bough Breaks", episode of ''Series/{{Castle}}'' ''Series/{{Castle|2009}}'' ("Rockabye Baby", traditional lullaby)



* "Hell Hath No Fury", episode of ''Series/{{Castle}}'' (''The Mourning Bride'', play)

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* "Hell Hath No Fury", episode of ''Series/{{Castle}}'' ''Series/{{Castle|2009}}'' (''The Mourning Bride'', play)
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* "Little Girl Lost", an episode of ''Series/{{Castle}}'' (title of poem)

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* "Little Girl Lost", an episode of ''Series/{{Castle}}'' ''Series/{{Castle|2009}}'' (title of poem)

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* ''Literature/IvyAberdeensLetterToTheWorld'', novel by Ashley Herring Blake ("This is my letter to the world", poem)



* ''Literature/IvyAberdeensLetterToTheWorld'', novel by Ashley Herring Blake ("This is my letter to the world", poem)

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* ''Literature/IvyAberdeensLetterToTheWorld'', novel by Ashley Herring Blake ("This is my letter to the world", poem)
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* ''Literature/IvyAberdeensLetterToTheWorld'', novel by Ashley Herring Blake ("This is my letter to the world", poem)
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* ''Literature/AfterTheFirstDeath'', novel by Creator/RobertCormier ("A Refusal to Mourn the Death, by Fire, of a Child in London", poem)
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* ''Film/AKnightsTale'', 2001 movie ("The Knight's Tale", the first tale in ''Literature/TheCanterburyTales'')
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* ''The Waters and the Wild'', book 11 in the ''SERRAted Edge'' series by Creator/MercedesLackey and Rosemary Edgehill ("The Stolen Child", poem). The working title for the book was "The Ferns They Drop Their Tears", a different line from the poem.

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* ''The Waters and the Wild'', book 11 in the ''SERRAted Edge'' ''[=SERRAted Edge=]'' series by Creator/MercedesLackey and Rosemary Edgehill ("The Stolen Child", poem). The working title for the book was "The Ferns They Drop Their Tears", a different line from the poem.
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* ''The Waters and the Wild'', book 11 in the ''SERRAted Edge'' series by Creator/MercedesLackey and Rosemary Edgehill ("The Stolen Child", poem). The working title for the book was "The Ferns They Drop Their Tears", a different line from the poem.
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* The ''VideoGame/{{Onmyoji}}'' fanfic ''[[https://archiveofourown.org/works/23128741 Gonjiki Yasha – Meiji Onmyōji Tales]]'', named after the novel ''Konjiki Yasha'' (''Literature/TheGoldenDemon''). Crosses over with TitleDrop and SpeakInShoutOuts as the nickname (translated to Silver Demon) of the main character.

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* The ''VideoGame/{{Onmyoji}}'' ''VideoGame/{{Onmyoji|2016}}'' fanfic ''[[https://archiveofourown.org/works/23128741 Gonjiki Yasha – Meiji Onmyōji Tales]]'', named after the novel ''Konjiki Yasha'' (''Literature/TheGoldenDemon''). Crosses over with TitleDrop and SpeakInShoutOuts as the nickname (translated to Silver Demon) of the main character.

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** "The Mermaids Singing" (''The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock'', poem)

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** "The Mermaids Singing" (''The ("The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock'', Prufrock", poem)



** ''The Mermaids Singing'' (''The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock'')

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** ''The Mermaids Singing'' (''The ("The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock'')Prufrock")


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* ''Film/IveHeardTheMermaidsSinging'', 1987 movie ("The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock", poem)

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* ''Film/EverythingIsIlluminated'' (''Literature/TheUnbearableLightnessOfBeing'', chapter 1)
* "The Unbearable Like-Likeness of Gene", ''WesternAnimation/BobsBurgers'' episode

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* ''Film/EverythingIsIlluminated'' (''Literature/TheUnbearableLightnessOfBeing'', References to ''Literature/TheUnbearableLightnessOfBeing'':
** ''Literature/EverythingIsIlluminated'''s title is taken from a quote from ''Literature/TheUnbearableLightnessOfBeing'',
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1: "In the sunset of dissolution, everything is illuminated by the aura of nostalgia, even the guillotine."
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* "Comicbook/ArkhamAsylumASeriousHouseOnSeriousEarth", comic, that line was in Philip Larkin poem: "Church Going".

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* "Comicbook/ArkhamAsylumASeriousHouseOnSeriousEarth", "ComicBook/ArkhamAsylumASeriousHouseOnSeriousEarth", comic, that line was in Philip Larkin poem: "Church Going".
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* ''1Q84'', novel by Creator/HarukiMurakami; the letter Q and the Japanese number 9 are homophones (''1984'', novel)

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* ''1Q84'', novel The title of ''Literature/OneQEightyFour'' by Creator/HarukiMurakami; the letter Q and the Creator/HarukiMurakami is a pun on ''Literature/NineteenEightyFour''- "9" in Japanese number 9 are homophones (''1984'', novel)is pronounced the same as the English letter "Q" (kyuu). Orwell's novel gets referenced a few times within Murakami's book through the figure of Big Brother.
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* The short story ''The Man Who Would Be Kzin'' by Creator/GregBear and Creator/SMStirling, set in Creator/LarryNiven's Literature/KnownSpace universe.
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* ''Literature/DestroyerOfWorlds'', by Creator/LarryNiven and Edward M. Lerner.

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* ''Literature/DestroyerOfWorlds'', The ''Literature/KnownSpace'' story ''Destroyer of Worlds'', by Creator/LarryNiven and Edward M. Lerner.
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* ''Fables and Reflections'', single-volume collection of ''Comicbook/TheSandman1989'' issues (''[[LongTitle A Father's Instructions; Consisting of Moral Tales, Fables, and Reflections; Designed to Promote The Love of Virtue, a Taste for Knowledge, And an Early Acquaintance with the Works of Nature.]]'')

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* ''Fables and Reflections'', single-volume collection of ''Comicbook/TheSandman1989'' issues (''[[LongTitle A (''A Father's Instructions; Consisting of Moral Tales, Fables, and Reflections; Designed to Promote The Love of Virtue, a Taste for Knowledge, And an Early Acquaintance with the Works of Nature.]]'')'')

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* "Wolf in the Fold", ''Series/StarTrekTheOriginalSeries'' episode ("The Destruction of Sennacherib", poem)
* "She Walks in Beauty", ''Series/{{Bonanza}}'' episode (title of poem)


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* ''Literature/TheBlueLagoon'', novel by Creator/HenryDeVereStacpoole (''Marino Faliero, Doge of Venice'', play)
* "She Walks in Beauty", ''Series/{{Bonanza}}'' episode (title of poem)
* "Wolf in the Fold", ''Series/StarTrekTheOriginalSeries'' episode ("The Destruction of Sennacherib", poem)


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* ''VideoGame/HeartOfDarkness'' (''Heart of Darkness'', novel).
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->''"I call this tale, in deference to another, longer story...'Literature/ATaleOfTwoCities'."''

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->''"I call this tale, in deference to another, longer story... 'Literature/ATaleOfTwoCities'."''



* "Recap/StartOfDarkness", print album of ''Webcomic/TheOrderOfTheStick'' (''Literature/HeartOfDarkness'', novel).

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* "Recap/StartOfDarkness", "[[Recap/TheOrderOfTheStickStartOfDarkness Start of Darkness]]", print album of ''Webcomic/TheOrderOfTheStick'' (''Literature/HeartOfDarkness'', novel).

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