Ripe

Famous quotes containing the word ripe:

“The things we now esteem fixed shall, one by one, detach themselves, like ripe fruit, from our experience, and fall. The wind shall blow them none knows whither.”
—Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)

“If you believe in the soul, do not clutch at sensual sweetness before it is ripe on the slow tree of cause and effect.”
—Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)

“Iron are our lives
Molten right through our youth.
A burnt space through ripe fields
A fair mouth’s broken tooth.”
—Isaac Rosenberg (1890–1918)