<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=460280" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>The ripe pear</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">Quartering this ripe pear<br>- a knife-and-fork job; it gave little away<br>except a slight softness around the stalk, <br>yet seems to contain more juice than<br>any work of man could hold -</div><div style="margin:10px 0">quartering this ripe pear, <br>I'm caught up in wonder: <br>this is almost too good for human beings -<br>it should have a religion built around its praise; </div><div style="margin:10px 0">as if it wishes to tell us something<br>that we might have overlooked<br>about such mouth-worn phrases as<br>Nature's bounty and God's grace..</div><div style="margin:10px 0">or as if, two thousand years ago, <br>it had leaned, heavy on its branch, <br>from the wall of Plato's leafy Academy, <br>saw him writing of ideals, <br>and smiled; </div><div style="margin:10px 0">and now I've written that, <br>I can eat this pear, <br>tasting it and what I've written; </div><div style="margin:10px 0">this pear, I swear, <br>now tastes even better; <br>as if I had submitted<br>on some altar, to be consumed by praise; <br>praise that tastes of pear; pear that tastes of praise.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Michael+Shepherd">Michael Shepherd</a><div class=q> <img src="https://www.citatepedia.ro/g/32share.png" style="float:left" alt="Share"> <script type="text/javascript" src="//s7.addthis.com/js/300/addthis_widget.js#pubid=citatepedia" async="async"></script><div style="display:inline-block" class="addthis_sharing_toolbox" data-url="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=460280" data-title="The ripe pear de Michael Shepherd" data-description="Quartering this ripe pear - a knife-and-fork job; it gave little away except a slight softness around the stalk, yet seems to contain more juice than any work of man could hold - quartering this ripe pear, I'm caught up in wonder: this is almo..."></div> </div> </div>

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