“A man bites into a dry peach and says "This peach is not good;" the peach replies "It is not my fault that you don't know the proper use for a dry peach."”
A quote from the special inclusions in the sheet music book for her album "Under the Pink".
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Tori Amos 71
American singer 1963Related quotes
“The ripest peach is highest on the tree.”
The Ripest Peach.
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919)
“Wanting this landlord's daughter
is wanting the topmost
peach.”
Source: Attributed, Poems of Sadness: The Erotic Verse of the Sixth Dalai Lama Tsangyang Gyatso tr. Paul Williams 2004, p.37
NOW interview (2004)
Context: The ripeness was a letter that John Keats wrote to his brother who emigrated to America describing what it was like to have a peach or piece of a peach in his mouth. And it's one of the sexiest things you will ever read of how slow you should take the peach. Don't rush it. Let it go through your palette. Let it lie on your tongue. Let it melt a little bit. Let it run from the corners. It's like describing the most incredible sex orgy. And then, you bite. But, it must be so ripe. It must be so delicious. In other words, you must not waste a second of this deliciousness which for him was life and being a great poet. That you savor every, everything that happened. I want to get ripe.
Miscellaneous Works and Correspondence (1832), Memoirs of Mr. Bradley
“Shall I part my hair behind? Do I dare to eat a peach?”
Source: The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock and Other Poems