“We rise again in the grass. In the flowers. In songs.”

— Anthony Doerr , book All the Light We Cannot See

Source: All the Light We Cannot See

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American writer 1973

L.J. Smith (1965) American author

Source: Nightfall

“Come! for I need Thy love,
More than the flower the dew, or grass the rain;
Come like Thy Holy Dove,
And let me in Thy sight rejoice to live again.”

Jones Very (1813–1880) American poet and essayist

From The Prayer

“In Aman's pomp poor Mardocheus wept,
Yet God did turn his fate upon his foe;
The Lazar pined while Dives' feast was kept,
Yet he to heaven, to hell did Dives go.
We trample grass and prize the flowers of May,
Yet grass is green when flowers do fade away.”

Robert Southwell (1561–1595) English Jesuit

"Scorn not the Least", line 19; p. 54.

“A need to concentrate on each sound, so that every blade of grass would be as important as a flower.”

Arvo Pärt (1935) Estonian composer

Arvo Pärt: 24 Preludes for a Fugue http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0358947/ (DVD, 2002)

“Listen, are we helpless? Are we doomed to do it again and again and again? Have we no choice but to play the Phoenix in an unending sequence of rise and fall?”

Walter M. Miller, Jr. book A Canticle for Leibowitz

Ch 25
A Canticle for Leibowitz (1959), Fiat Voluntas Tua
Context: Listen, are we helpless? Are we doomed to do it again and again and again? Have we no choice but to play the Phoenix in an unending sequence of rise and fall? Assyria, Babylon, Egypt, Greece, Carthage, Rome, the Empires of Charlemagne and the Turk: Ground to dust and plowed with salt. Spain, France, Britain, America — burned into the oblivion of the centuries. And again and again and again. Are we doomed to it, Lord, chained to the pendulum of our own mad clockwork, helpless to halt its swing? This time, it will swing us clean to oblivion, he thought.

“He was, she thought, as beautiful as a young god, lying on his side among the grass and flowers”

Alice Borchardt (1939–2007) American fiction writer

The Raven Warrior

“The park grass looked greener, the park benches looked better and the flowers were trying harder.”

Charles Bukowski book Ham on Rye

Source: Ham on Rye

“Rise again
Rise again
That her name not be lost to the knowledge of men.”

Stan Rogers (1949–1983) Folk singer

The Mary Ellen Carter (1979)

“Under the lime tree
On the heather,
Where we had shared a place of rest,
Still you may find there,
Lovely together,
Flowers crushed and grass down-pressed.”

Walther von der Vogelweide (1170–1230) Middle High German lyric poet

Under der linden
an der heide,
dâ unser zweier bette was,
dâ mugt ir vinden
schône beide
gebrochen bluomen unde gras.
"Under der linden", line 1; translation by Raymond Oliver. http://colecizj.easyvserver.com/pgvogund.htm

“Shocked me too the things we used to do on grass
It would shock you too the things we used to do on grass
Grass, grass.
Things we did on grass”

Colin Moulding (1955) English bassist, songwriter and vocalist

"Grass"
Skylarking (1986)

“We rise again in the grass. In the flowers. In songs.”

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