Watermelons



Watermelon (Citrullus lanatus var. lanatus, family Cucurbitaceae) is a vine-like (scrambler and trailer) flowering plant originally from southern Africa.

Quotes

 * That was the hardest part, I admit, but I had a kind of dark foreknowledge of what it would be like. Everything, from eating watermelon or going to the bathroom or just standing on a subway platform, lost in thought for a few minutes, or worrying about rain forests, would be affected, or more precisely, inflected by my new attitude. I wouldn't be preachy, or worry about children and old people, except in the general way prescribed by our clockwork universe.
 * John Ashbery, "My Philosophy of Life" (1995)


 * The fish has too many bones and the watermelon too many seeds.
 * Charles Reznikoff, "The Old Man" (1969)


 * Green Buddhas On the fruit stand. We eat the smile And spit out the teeth.
 * Charles Simic, "Watermelons" (1974)


 * To cut with a sharp knife a bright green watermelon on a big scarlet plate of a summer afternoon. Ah, is this not happiness?
 * Lin Yutang, The Importance of Living (1937), "Chin's Thirty-three Happy Moments", p. 134