Matches in DBpedia 2014 for { ?s ?p All flesh is grass is a much-quoted phrase from the Old Testament Book of Isaiah. Specifically it is found in Isaiah 40:6. In the New Testament the phrase occurs in First Epistle of Peter (see 1Peter 1:24). In both cases the phrase is interpreted to mean that human life is transitory. It has been used in various works, including: "All Flesh is Grass", a poem by English poet Christina Rossetti "War Photographer" by the Scottish poet Carol Ann Duffy, where it describes the sights seen in war photographs "The Omnivore's Dilemma", a nonfiction book by Michael Pollan it is repeated in a line of the poem "Difficulties of a Statesman" by T. S. Eliot a novel by American science fiction writer Clifford D. Simak a book on agriculture by American author Gene Logsdon an album by Norwegian dark metal band Madder Mortem it was inscribed on the pope's chest in the painting King Edward VI and the Pope it was inscribed on the pope's chest in the painting Deathbed of Henry VIII cited by Thomas Dekker in The Shoemakers' Holiday ( 1599 ) it was used as text for "Denn alles Fleisch es ist wie Gras", the second movement of the German Requiem by Johannes Brahms it was used in the first stanza of Kipling's poem entitled "Arithmetic on the Frontier" it was used in the third stanza of the ninth poem in "Ten Songs" by W. H. Auden to reinforce the idea of "Tempus Fugit" used earlier in the stanza. it was used in "The Handmaid's Tale" by Margaret Atwood, "All flesh is weak. All flesh is grass, I corrected her in my head," (45).• In the Michael Cimino film, Heaven's Gate (1980), John Hurt's character Billy Irvine mutters it to himself as, appalled, he drunkenly watches a battle unfold around him and is then killed.. }
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- All_flesh_is_grass abstract "All flesh is grass is a much-quoted phrase from the Old Testament Book of Isaiah. Specifically it is found in Isaiah 40:6. In the New Testament the phrase occurs in First Epistle of Peter (see 1Peter 1:24). In both cases the phrase is interpreted to mean that human life is transitory. It has been used in various works, including: "All Flesh is Grass", a poem by English poet Christina Rossetti "War Photographer" by the Scottish poet Carol Ann Duffy, where it describes the sights seen in war photographs "The Omnivore's Dilemma", a nonfiction book by Michael Pollan it is repeated in a line of the poem "Difficulties of a Statesman" by T. S. Eliot a novel by American science fiction writer Clifford D. Simak a book on agriculture by American author Gene Logsdon an album by Norwegian dark metal band Madder Mortem it was inscribed on the pope's chest in the painting King Edward VI and the Pope it was inscribed on the pope's chest in the painting Deathbed of Henry VIII cited by Thomas Dekker in The Shoemakers' Holiday ( 1599 ) it was used as text for "Denn alles Fleisch es ist wie Gras", the second movement of the German Requiem by Johannes Brahms it was used in the first stanza of Kipling's poem entitled "Arithmetic on the Frontier" it was used in the third stanza of the ninth poem in "Ten Songs" by W. H. Auden to reinforce the idea of "Tempus Fugit" used earlier in the stanza. it was used in "The Handmaid's Tale" by Margaret Atwood, "All flesh is weak. All flesh is grass, I corrected her in my head," (45).• In the Michael Cimino film, Heaven's Gate (1980), John Hurt's character Billy Irvine mutters it to himself as, appalled, he drunkenly watches a battle unfold around him and is then killed.".