Grass quotes

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Cesare Pavese Poet, Novelist
Grass

"Maybe it's better like this, better that everything should go up in a blaze of dry grass and that people should begin again."

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Anne Sexton Poet, Author
Grass

"The grass as bristly and stout as chives and me wondering when the ground will break and me wondering how anything fragile survives"

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Grass

"You call yourself some kind of goddess and you know nothing, madam, nothing. What don't die can't live. What don't live can't change. What don't change can't learn. The smallest creature that dies in the grass knows more than you."

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Rebecca West Novelist, Journalist
Grass

"The aged are terrible - mere heaps of cinders on the grass from which none can tell how tall the flames once were or what company gathered round them."

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Kim Harrison Author
Grass

"Though no one had been buried here for almost thirty years, the grass was mown by yours truly. I felt a tidy graveyard made a happy graveyard."

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