Associations to the word «Epigraph»

Wiktionary

EPIGRAPH, noun. An inscription, especially one on a building.
EPIGRAPH, noun. A literary quotation placed at the beginning of a book or other text.
EPIGRAPH, noun. (mathematics) (of a function) the set of all points lying on or above the function's graph.

Dictionary definition

EPIGRAPH, noun. A quotation at the beginning of some piece of writing.
EPIGRAPH, noun. An engraved inscription.

Wise words

The most important things are the hardest things to say. They are the things you get ashamed of because words diminish your feelings - words shrink things that seem timeless when they are in your head to no more than living size when they are brought out.
Stephen King