“Color is, in brief terms, the type of love. Hence it is especially connected with the blossoming of the earth; and again, with its fruits; also, with the spring and fall of the leaf, and with the morning and evening of the day, in order to show the waiting of love about the birth and death of man.” MenShowsEarthOrderFallWaitingTermMorningColorTypeBirthSpringFruitConnectedEveningLeafsBirth And DeathBlossomingTypes Of Love Book:pt. VI: Of leaf beauty. pt. VII: Of cloud beauty. pts. VIII-IX: Of ideas of relation Source: pt. VI: Of leaf beauty. pt. VII: Of cloud beauty. pts. VIII-IX: Of ideas of relation
“One may decide that the nipple most nearly resembles a newly ripened raspberry (never, be it noted, the plonk of water on a pond at the commencement of a drizzle, a simple bladder nozzle built on the suction principal gum bubble, mole, or birth ward, bumpy metal button, or the painful red eruption of a swelling), but does one care to see his breakfast fruit as a sweetened milky bowl of snipped nips? no.” MayDoeBodyCareWaterSimpleBirthBuiltRedFruitPainfulBreastsBreakfastMetalsBubblesBowlsPrincipalButtonsPondsGumCommencementMolesSwellingNipplesEruptionBladderRaspberriesDrizzle Author:William H. Gass
“Why don't you conceive of God as an ally who is coming, who has been approaching since time began, the one who will someday arrive, the fruit of a tree whose leaves we are? Why not project his birth into the future, and live your life as an excruciating and lyrical moment in the history of a prodigious pregnancy?” Has BeensMomentsTreeBirthProjectsFruitSomedayWhy NotPregnancyAlliesLive Your LifeLyricalProdigious Author:Rainer Maria Rilke
“All beautiful and noble qualities have been united in me... I shall be the fruit which will leave eternal vitality behind even after its decay. How great must be your joy, therefore, to have given birth to me.” Has BeensBeautifulJoyGivenUnitedBehindsQualityBirthEternalFruitNobleDecayVitality Author:Egon Schiele
“Man, born of woman, has found it a hard thing to forgive her for giving him birth. The patriarchal protest against the ancient matriarch has borne strange fruit through the years.” MenGivingYearsHardFoundBornStrangeBirthForgivingFruitAncientProtestHard ThingsThrough The YearsMatriarchs Author:Lillian Smith
“There is to me about this place a smell of rot, the smell of rot that ripe fruit makes. Nowhere, ever, have the hideous mechanics of birth and copulation and death -those monstrous upheavals of life that the Greeks call miasma, defilement- been so brutal or been painted up to look so pretty; have so many people put so much faith in lies and mutability and death death death.” PeopleLooksLyingBirthFruitSmellGreekBrutalMechanicMonstrousRipeHideousUpheavalRipe FruitMutabilityDefilement Author:Donna Tartt
“What do we look for as reward? Some little sounds, and scents, and scenes A small hand darting strawberry-ward A woman's aprons full of greens. The sense that we have brought to birth Out of the cold and heavy soil, The blessed fruits and flowers of earth Is large reward for our toil.” LooksLittlesHandsEarthDesireSoundFlowerColdBirthSceneEssentialsGardenBlessedFruitRewardsHeavySoilGardeningScentToilStrawberriesApronsSmall Hands Author:Ruth Pitter
“In our case, murder being once for all forbidden, we may not destroy even the foetus in the womb, while as yet the human being derives blood from other parts of the body for its sustenance. To hinder a birth is merely a speedier mankilling; nor does it matter whether you take away a life that is born, or destroy one that is coming to the birth. That is a man which is going to be one; you have the fruit already in the seed.” MenHumansMayDoeMatterBodyBornHuman BeingsCasesBloodBirthMurderFruitKillingSeedsAbortionForbiddenWombHinderSustenanceDoes It MatterFetusParts Of The Body Author:Tertullian