Ripening Quotations

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

Schemes are like fruit, they require a certain ripening.

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

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

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