Quotes About Persimmons

#1. Persimmons are not born soft,"
"But they are valued for their softness."
"Their ripeness.

Yiyun Li

#2. Some things never leave a person:
scent of the hair of one you love,
the texture of persimmons,
in your palm, the ripe weight.

Li-Young Lee

#3. Having examined three thousand haiku poems - two persimmons.

Masaoka Shiki

#4. Maybe my limbs are made
mostly for decoration,
like the way I feel about
persimmons.

Ada Limon

#5. Several ripe persimmons Left on the branches; Gray clouds come and go.

Santoka Taneda

#6. The value of ourselves is but the value of our melancholy and our disquiet.

Maurice Maeterlinck

#7. Every great narrative is at least two narratives, if not more - the thing that is on the surface and then the things underneath which are invisible.

Ali Smith

#8. Really?" Ip said, leaning forward. Her knee pressed against Alex's in a way that was absolutely innocent. Unless it wasn't, in which case it absolutely wasn't. "Never

James S.A. Corey

#9. I do not drink from this jug every day. But sometimes at night when the wind blows and I am alone and feeling very solitary, it is my only friend and comfort. Right, Pancho?

Rick Skwiot

#10. Catch, then, oh! catch the transient hour,
Improve each moment as it flies;
Life's a short summer-man a flower;
He dies-alas! how soon he dies!

Samuel Johnson

#11. Wolves have no kings.

Robin Hobb

#12. The vanity of shining in conversation is usually subversive of its own desires.

Lydia Sigourney

#13. Maybe none of us can choose who we love, Cas. None of the lucky ones, anyway. The only choice we have is how we serve that love. And Ethan's made his choice. What about you? Are you going to reject it, or make the best of what you've been given?

Vicki Keire

#14. Feet, what do I need you for when I have wings to fly?

Frida Kahlo

#15. When you hold positive thoughts and images in your mind, you raise your power level and you create a vibratory energy around those thoughts - those thoughts are more likely to manifest.

Frederick Lenz

#16. Accents are very tangible, blessedly, and if you have to do one, it's a way of getting into character. I can read it through a few times and pretend I know what I'm doing!

Emily Mortimer