Ripe

Famous quotes containing the word ripe:

“These ripe pears
are bitter to the taste,
this spiced wine, poison, corrupt.”
—Hilda Doolittle (1886–1961)

“When I heard at the close of the day how my name had been receiv’d
with plaudits in the capitol, still it was not a happy night for me
that follow’d,
And else when I carous’d, or when my plans were accomplish’d,
still I was not happy,
But the day when I rose at dawn from the bed of perfect health,
refresh’d, singing, inhaling the ripe breath of autumn,”
—Walt Whitman (1819–1892)

“Does ripe fruit never fall?”
—Wallace Stevens (1879–1955)