Rabindranath Tagore (1861–1941) Bengali polymath
27 <br class="br"> The Gardener http://www.spiritualbee.com/love-poems-by-tagore/ (1915)
“We feel much sorrow for you, the elm tree had said. But what kind of sorrow—a real and sincere sorrow, or the superficial and pedantic sorrow of the immortal for a frail and flickering creature that was about to die?”
— Clifford D. Simak, book All Flesh is Grass
Source: All Flesh is Grass (1965), Chapter 24 (p. 247)
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