“I am hanging in the balance of the reality of man
Like every sparrow falling, like every grain of sand”
Song lyrics, Shot of Love (1981), Every Grain Of Sand
Variant: "I am hanging in the balance of a perfect, finished plan" (The Bootleg Series, Vols. 1–3)
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Bob Dylan (1941) American singer-songwriter, musician, author, and artist
Song lyrics, Shot of Love (1981), Every Grain Of Sand
“We call it a grain of sand
but it calls itself neither grain nor sand.”
Wisława Szymborska (1923–2012) Polish writer
"View with a Grain of Sand"
Poems New and Collected (1998), The People on the Bridge (1986)
Context: We call it a grain of sand
but it calls itself neither grain nor sand.
It does just fine without a name,
whether general, particular,
permanent, passing,
incorrect or apt.
William Mountford (1816–1885) English Unitarian preacher and author
Source: Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895), P. 421.
Hans Georg Dehmelt (1922–2017) German physicist
concluding his Nobel lecture http://nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/physics/laureates/1989/dehmelt-lecture.html referring to the richness of the physics of subatomic particles.
Alison Bechdel book Dykes to Watch Out For
#385, "Just a Rhetorical Question" (2002), collected in Dykes and Sundry Other Carbon-Based Life Forms TWOF (2003).
Dykes to Watch Out For
“The divine is everywhere, even in a grain of sand; there I represented it in the reeds.”
Caspar David Friedrich (1774–1840) Swedish painter
Quote of Friedrich on his painting Swans in the Rushes (c. 1820), as cited in "Absent Presences in Liminal Places: Murnau's Nosferatu and the Otherworld of Stoker's Dracula" by Saviour Catania in Literature Film Quarterly (2004) http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_qa3768/is_200401/ai_n9377557/print <br class="br">1794 - 1840
