Ripe

Famous quotes containing the word ripe:

    “Silent rushes the swift Lord
    Through ruined systems still restored,
    Broadsowing, bleak and void to bless,
    Plants with worlds the wilderness;
    Waters with tears of ancient sorrow
    Apples of Eden ripe to-morrow.
    House and tenant go to ground,
    Lost in God, in Godhead found.”
    —Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)

    “This ripe rebuke, this burgeoning affluence
    Mocks me and mocks the desert of my bed.”
    —Gwendolyn Brooks (b. 1917)

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