Ripe

Famous quotes containing the word ripe:

“To use bitter words, when kind words are at hand,
Is like picking unripe fruit when the ripe fruit is there.”
—Tiruvalluvar (c. 5th century A.D.)

“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)