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I tried to film 'Leaves of Grass' in Oklahoma, but it was literally about a million dollars less to shoot in Louisiana. -- Tim Blake Nelson
One of my favorite passages in 'Leaves of Grass,' that breathless, exuberant poem so rich and full of innocence and joy and generosity and compassion, is 'Mannahatta.' -- Cathleen Schine
The soldiers did go away and their towns were torn down; and in the Moon of Falling Leaves (November), they made a treaty with Red Cloud that said our country would be ours as long as grass should grow and water flow. -- Black Elk
I started writing 'Leaves Of Grass' when my professional life was falling apart somewhat. I just had a movie implode in pre-production. And so I came back licking my wounds to New York, where I live, and started to write a script about a protagonist for whom the exact same thing happened: His life was falling apart. -- Tim Blake Nelson
I grew up in New Mexico, and the older I get, I have less need for contemporary culture and big cities and all the stuff we are bombarded with. I am happier at my ranch in the middle of nowhere watching a bug carry leaves across the grass, listening to silence, riding my horse, and being in open space. -- Tom Ford
Like many kids, I used to pretend all sorts of things. I would climb into a tree and imagine that I was on an island, that the grass below we was an ocean, that the leaves were the fins of sharks. Perhaps unlike many people, I never really stopped. I still have a childlike predisposition to fantasise and share my fantasies. -- Mohsin Hamid
There is a part of me that will forever want to be walking under autumn leaves, carrying a briefcase containing the works of Shakespeare and Yeats and a portable chess set. I will pass an old tree under which once on a summer night I lay on the grass with a fragrant young woman and we quoted e.e. cummings back and forth. -- Roger Ebert
Fallen leaves lying on the grass in the November sun bring more happiness than the daffodils. -- Cyril Connolly
Suspension of disbelief and that whole question is part of the heart of the 'Leaves of Grass'movie. -- Edward Norton
He will hear the rain before he feels it, a clicking on the dry grass, on the olive leaves. -- Michael Ondaatje
It is no discredit to Walt Whitman that he wrote Leaves of Grass, only that he did not burn it afterwards. -- Thomas Wentworth Higginson
Bread without love is like grass without salt -- the stomach may be filled, but it leaves a bad taste in the mouth. -- Leonid Andreyev
The true poet, is like a man who's happy anywhere, in endless measure, if he's allowed to look at leaves and grass, to see the sun rise and set. -- Jacob Grimm
[Leaves of Grass is] monstrous because it pretends to persuade the soul while it slights the intellect; because it pretends to gratify the feelings while it outrages the taste. -- Henry James

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