quotations about apples
There is nothing in the world more peaceful than apple-leaves with an early moon.
ALICE MEYNELL
Gardens Ancient and Modern
And then there is that day when all around, all around you hear the dropping of the apples, one by one, from the trees. At ?rst it is one here and one there, and then it is three and then it is four and then nine and twenty, until the apples plummet like rain, fall like horse hoofs in the soft, darkening grass, and you are the last apple on the tree; and you wait for the wind to work you slowly free from your hold upon the sky, and drop you down and down. Long before you hit the grass you will have forgotten there ever was a tree, or other apples, or a summer, or green grass below, you will fall in darkness...
RAY BRADBURY
Dandelion Wine
And when you crush an apple with your teeth, say to it in your heart:
'Your seeds shall live in my body,
And the buds of your tomorrow shall blossom in my heart,
And your fragrance shall be my breath,
And together we shall rejoice through all the seasons.'
KAHLIL GIBRAN
The Prophet
There's plenty of boys that will come hankering and gruvvelling around when you've got an apple, and beg the core off you; but when they've got one, and you beg for the core, and remind them how you give them a core one time, they make a mouth at you, and say thank you 'most to death, but there ain't a-going to be no core.
MARK TWAIN
Tom Sawyer Abroad
Old Fortune, like sly Farmer Dapple,
Where there's an orchard, flings an apple.
JOHN CLARE
Rural Life
Even if I knew that tomorrow the world would go to pieces, I would still plant my apple tree.
MARTIN LUTHER
attributed, Men as Trees Walking
An apple a day keeps anyone away, if you throw it hard enough.
STEPHEN COLBERT
The Colbert Report
The tarter the apple, the tastier the cider.
BEVERLY LEWIS
The Revelation
There never was an apple, in Adam's opinion, that wasn't worth the trouble you got into for eating it.
NEIL GAIMAN & TERRY PRATCHETT
Good Omens
With a heart that is true,
I'll be waiting for you,
In the shade of the old apple tree.
HARRY WILLIAMS
In the Shade of the Old Apple Tree
The apples that grew on the fruit-tree of knowledge
By woman were pluck'd, and she still wears the prize
To tempt us in theatre, senate, or college--
I mean the love-apples that bloom in the eyes.
HORACE & JAMES SMITH
Living Lustres
You make me feel
Like I'm in apple country.
MINDLESS SELF INDULGENCE
"Apple Country"
Surely the apple is the noblest of fruits.
HENRY DAVID THOREAU
"Wild Apples", The Atlantic Monthly, November 1862
Like the sweet apple which reddens upon the topmost bough
Atop on the topmost twig--which the pluckers forgot, somehow--
Forgot it not, nay, but got it not, for none could get it till now.
DANTE GABRIEL ROSSETTI
Beauty
What is mor melancholy than the old apple-trees that linger about the spot where once stood a homestead, but where there is now only a ruined chimney rising out of a grassy and weed-grown cellar? They offer their fruit to every wayfarer--apples that are bittersweet with the moral of time's vicissitude.
NATHANIEL HAWTHORNE
Mosses from an Old Manse
Art thou the topmost apple
The gatherers could reach,
Reddening on the bough?
Shall I not take thee?
SAPPHO
Odes
Portia gasped awake with the taste of apples in her mouth- crisp green apples smothered in brown sugar and spice. She needed to bake.
LINDA FRANCIS LEE
The Glass Kitchen
He pares his apple that will cleanly feed.
GEORGE HERBERT
The Church-Porch
The sweeter the apple, the blacker the core.
DOROTHY PARKER
Not So Deep as a Well
I peeled the apples with ridiculous care, taking the skins off in long, even ribbons that spiraled down to the floor without breaking.
JEANNE RAY
Eat Cake