peach quotes

Do I dare to eat a peach?

-T(homas) S(tearns) Eliot
  'The Love Song of  J  Alfred Prufrock' (first published in Poetry magazine, collected in Prufrock and Other Observations, 1917).

The pretension is nothing; the performance everything. A good apple is better than an insipid peach.

- (James Henry) Leigh Hunt
  The Story of Rimini, preface to rev edn.

What wondrous life is this I lead! Ripe apples drop about my head; The luscious clusters of the vine Upon my mouth do crush their wine; The nectarine, and curious peach, Into my hands themselves do reach; Stumbling on melons, as I pass, Ensnared with flowers, I fall on grass.

- Andrew Marvell
c.1650^1652  'The Garden' (published1681), stanza 5.