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Ripening Quotes

Gestation requires protected space; ripening requires both permeability to the outer — and non-disturbance.

Gestation requires protected space; ripening requires both permeability to the outer — and non-disturbance.

Jane Hirshfield
Space, Gestation, Ripening

The Christian is like the ripening corn; the riper he grows the more lowly he bends his head.

Alfred Bertram Guthrie
Christian, Corn, Ripening

May I die like a dog rather than hasten the ripening of a sentence by a single second!

Gustave Flaubert
Dog, May, Ripening
Gustave Flaubert (1954). “The Selected Letters”

The whole world is one immense woman, and we are in her very womb, we are not yet born, we are joyfully ripening.

Yevgeny Zamyatin
World, Born, Ripening
Yevgeny Zamyatin (2010). “We: Introduction by Will Self”, p.64, Random House

Nothing is finer for the purposes of great productions than a very gradual ripening of the intellectual powers.

John Keats
Intellectual, Purpose, Ripening
John Keats (1914*). “The complete poetical works and letters of John Keats”, p.40, Рипол Классик

Schemes are like fruit, they require a certain ripening.

George R. R. Martin
Fruit, Ripening, Schemes
George R. R. Martin (2012). “George R. R. Martin's A Game of Thrones 5-Book Boxed Set (Song of Ice and Fire Series): A Game of Thrones, A Clash of Kings, A Storm of Swords, A Feast for Crows, and and A Dance with Dragons”, p.759, Bantam

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