apples
Fruit for Thought…
Photo by L.K. Thayer
“The seasonal urge is strong in poets. Milton wrote chiefly in winter. Keats looked for spring to wake him up (as it did in the miraculous months of April and May, 1819). Burns chose autumn. Longfellow liked the month of September. Shelley flourished in the hot months. Some poets, like Wordsworth, have gone outdoors to work. Others, like Auden, keep to the curtained room. Schiller needed the smell of rotten apples about him to make a poem. Tennyson and Walter de la Mare had to smoke. Auden drinks lots of tea, Spender coffee; Hart Crane drank alcohol. Pope, Byron, and William Morris were creative late at night. And so it goes.”
― Helen Bevington
Juicy Quote
Fruit For Thought…
Juicy Quote
“It is, in my view, the duty of an apple to be crisp and crunchable, but a pear should have such a texture as leads to silent consumption.”
– Edward Bunyard
“Apples” by Grace Schulman
Fruit For Thought…
Juicy Quote
“Self-respect is the fruit of discipline;
the sense of dignity grows with the ability to say
no to oneself.”
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“The Cow In Apple-Time” by Robert Frost
Something inspires the only cow of late
To make no more of a wall than an open gate,
And think no more of wall-builders than fools.
Her face is flecked with pomace and she drools
A cider syrup. Having tasted fruit,
She scorns a pasture withering to the root.
She runs from tree to tree where lie and sweeten.
The windfalls spiked with stubble and worm-eaten.
She leaves them bitten when she has to fly.
She bellows on a knoll against the sky.
Her udder shrivels and the milk goes dry.
Robert Frost
Juicy Quote
“And the fruit of my vanity is shame, and repentance,
and the clear knowledge that whatever the world finds pleasing,
is but a brief dream.”
Petrarch
© 2011