Stone, steel, dominions pass, Faith too, no wonder; So leave alone the grass That I am under.

He sniffed the sweetness of the tawny grass, which entered his brain and set his thoughts whirling on from the particular to the universal.

When I think of the play of force and matter, and all the tremendous struggle of it, I feel as if I could write an epic on the grass.

I love London and Wimbledon but the problem is that I’m not very good on grass, that was the hardest in the juniors for me, but the 02 should be fine as it’s on hard court.

I like to slide on a court, but when I slide on grass I never stop.

The woman bent down to pick up the fallen pomegranate from the grass. It was ripe, it had burst open in the fall, stained her white dress. The vision of the laden barge, the pale island, the flowery meadow returned to her loving spirit along with the Creator’s words: ‘This is my body… Take and eat.

It was the beginning of June; summer was arising out of spring, like an aloe from a field of grass.

Every blade of grass, every insect, ant, and golden bee, all so amazingly know their path, though they have not intelligence, they bear witness to the mystery of God and continually accomplish it themselves.

For sheep don’t throw up the grass to show the shepherds how much they have eaten; but, inwardly digesting their food, they outwardly produce wool and milk.

When the wind blows,the grass bends.

A man’s renown is like the hue of grass, Which comes and goes.

Give birth to me from a grain of wheat, not from a wound. Give birth to me and take me back to a world before meaning, so I can embrace you on the grass. Do you hear me?

Against barbarity, poetry can resist only by confirming its attachment to human fragility like a blade of grass growing on a wall while armies march by.