fruit symbolism Quotes

I have only to break into the tightness of a strawberry, and I see summer - its dust and lowering skies.

Every time I'm in Georgia, I eat a peach for peace.

I cannot help thinking that it is more natural to have flowers grow out of the head than fruit.

A Poem should be palpable and mute As a globed fruit.

You're no help," he told the lime. This was unfair. It was only a lime; there was nothing special about it at all. It was doing the best it could.

Apricots are the most private fruit, loath to reveal their secrets.

I will have to admit, though, that I will never look at an apple in quite the same way.

'Pomegranate,' started with my imagining a bullet going through the fruit and causing it to bleed. My initial associations were with pomegranates in old masters painting and their Judeo-Christian symbolism.

I think drugs are like strawberries and peaches.

Fruits ... like having their portrait painted. They seem to sit there and ask your forgiveness for fading. Their thought is given off with their perfumes. They come with all their scents, they speak of the fields they have left, the rain which has nourished them, the daybreaks they have seen.

The tomato offers its gift of fiery color and cool completeness.

Men and Melons are hard to know.