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All Men are Mortal (1946)
“There is not one little blade of grass, there is no color in this world that is not intended to make men rejoice.”
Sermon Number 10 on I Corinthians, 698. As quoted in John Calvin: A Sixteenth-Century Portrait (1989) by William J. Bouwsma, pp. 134–135.
Epistles to the Corinthians
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French Protestant reformer 1509–1564Related quotes
“A blade of grass is the journeywork of the stars”
Variant: I believe a leaf of grass is no less than the journey-work of the stars.
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The Gardener http://www.spiritualbee.com/love-poems-by-tagore/ (1915)
1850s, Address before the Wisconsin State Agricultural Society (1859)
"Love the Wild Swan" (1935)
Context: I hate my verses, every line, every word.
Oh pale and brittle pencils ever to try
One grass-blade's curve, or the throat of one bird
That clings to twig, ruffled against white sky.
Oh cracked and twilight mirrors ever to catch
One color, one glinting flash, of the splendor of things.
Impromptu poem, made at the request of reporters, printed in "Markham v. Prodigy" http://jcgi.pathfinder.com/time/magazine/printout/0,8816,928761,00.html TIME magazine (23 November 1925)