Singing Grass

Famous quotes containing the words singing and/or grass:

    I said, the poets are there
    I hear them singing and lying
    around their round table
    and around me still.
    Anne Sexton (1928–1974)

    If work and leisure are soon to be subordinated to this one utopian principle—absolute busyness—then utopia and melancholy will come to coincide: an age without conflict will dawn, perpetually busy—and without consciousness.
    —Günther Grass (b. 1927)