Ripe

Famous quotes containing the word ripe:

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

“The beach was crowded,
people tossed like ripe corn,
buttering themselves as they went
and on the dunes thousands of crabs,
moved their yellow eyes.”
—Anne Sexton (1928–1974)

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