Grass

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I believe a leaf of grass is no less than the journey-work of the stars.

Walt Whitman

Song of Myself

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Topic

Grass Stars Big vs. small

Author

Walt Whitman

Source

Song of Myself Leaves of Grass

Medium

Poem

Language

English

Time

1855 1850s 19th century

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Original Citation

Whitman, Walt. Leaves of Grass. Brooklyn, New York: Self-published, 1855, poem 1.

Current Citation

Whitman, Walt. "Song of Myself." Leaves of Grass and Other Writings. W. W. Norton & Company, 2002, sect. 31.

All flesh is as grass, and all the glory of man as the flower of grass. The grass withereth, and the flower thereof falleth away.

1st Peter 1:24

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Topic

Sic transit gloria mundi Ephemeral nature of life Grass Life

Source

1st Peter The Bible

Medium

Scripture

Genre

Religious literature

Statement Type

Metaphor, analogy and simile

Language

Greek

Time

65 60s 1st century

Era

Classical antiquity

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Citation

The Holy Bible: The King James Version. 1611. (1st Peter 1:24).

If you desire what is good, the people will be good. The character of a ruler is like wind and that of the people is like grass. In whatever direction the wind blows the grass always bends.

Confucius

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Topic

Political leadership The masses Grass

Speaker

Confucius

Source

Analects

Genre

Philosophical literature

Statement Type

Metaphor, analogy and simile

Language

Chinese

Time

221 BC 220s BC 3rd century BC

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Original Citation

Confucius. 論語 [The Analects]. c. 479 BCE.

Current Citation

Confucius. The Analects, edited and translated by Annping Chin. Penguin Classics, 2014.

Get off my lawn!

Gran Torino

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Topic

Grass Yard

Speaker

Walt Kowalski

Actor

Clint Eastwood

Source

Gran Torino

Medium

Film

Genre

Drama (film) Drama

Statement Type

Orders and commands Threat

Language

English

Time

2008 2000s 21st century

Authentication Score 3

Citation

Gran Torino. Directed by Clint Eastwood, Double Nickel Entertainment/Malpaso Productions/Village Roadshow Pictures, 2008.

Nothing is more pleasant to the eye than green grass kept finely shorn.

Francis Bacon

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Topic

Lawn Grass Suburbia

Author

Francis Bacon

Source

Of Gardens Essays or Counsels, Civil and Moral

Medium

Essay

Language

English

Time

1625 1620s 17th century

Era

European Renaissance

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Original Citation

Bacon, Francis "Of Gardens." Essayes or Counsels, Civill and Morall. London: John Haviland, 1625.

Current Citation

Bacon, Francis. "Essays, or Counsels, Civil and Moral (1625): Of Gardens." Francis Bacon: The Major Works, edited by Brian Vickers. Oxford University Press, 2008.

Don't you find it a beautiful clean thought, a world empty of people, just uninterrupted grass, and a hare sitting up?

D.H. Lawrence

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Topic

Nature Grass Rabbits

Speaker

Rupert Birkin

Author

D.H. Lawrence

Source

Women in Love

Medium

Novel

Statement Type

Question

Language

English

Time

1920 1920s 20th century

Authentication Score 3

Citation

Lawrence, D.H. Women in Love. Thomas Seltzer, 1920, ch. 11.

Dies, all dies!
The grass it dies, but in vernal rain
Up it springs and it lives again;
Over and over, again and again
It lives, it dies and it lives again.

Herman Melville

Works

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Topic

Grass Circle of life

Author

Herman Melville

Source

Pontoosuce Works

Medium

Poem

Language

English

Time

1891 1890s 19th century

Authentication Score 3

Original Citation

Melville, Herman. "Pontoosuce." Works. Vol. 16, Constable, 1924, I. 71.

Current Citation

Melville, Herman. "Pontoosuce." Selected Poems of Herman Melville. Penguin Classics, 2006, I. 71.