Quote by Amy Stewart

“The proper way to eat a fig, in society, Is to split it in four, holding it by the stump, And open it, so…

— dh lawrence

“The Ripe Fig Now that You live here in my chest, anywhere we sit is a mountaintop. And those other images, which have enchanted…

— Rumi

“She took a sip of Armagnac and savored the caramel, cherry, dark chocolate, and lavender flavors. "How do they make this?" she asked. "It's…

— Emily Arden Wells

Nothing great is produced suddenly, since not even the grape or the fig is. If you say to me now that you want a…

— Epictetus

To eat figs off the tree in the very early morning, when they have been barely touched by the sun, is one of the…

— Elizabeth David

A fig for a care, a fig for a woe!

— John Heywood

The Ripe FigNow that You live here in my chest,anywhere we sit is a mountaintop.And those other images,which have enchanted peoplelike porcelain dolls from…

— Rumi

“The fig tree grows its flowers strangely inside out, concealed within the soft interior of the fruit. Erszébet imagines the fig's hidden fairy weight…

— Jody Shields

“The fig tree had dropped its fruit all over the ground. Ripe figs lay in the dust, exploded, bloody, as if the sky had…

— Rupert Thomson

“From the tip of every branch, like a fat purple fig, a wonderful future beckoned and winked. One fig was a husband and a…

— Sylvia Plath

And never since harvests were ripened, / Or laborers born, / Have men gathered figs of the thistle, / Or grapes of the thorn!

— Phoebe Cary

The fallen hazel-nuts, Stripped late of their green sheaths, The grapes, red-purple, Their berries Dripping with wine, Pomegranates already broken, And shrunken fig, And…

— Hilda Doolittle