6 Quotes by Eve Merriam

Don't be polite.Bite in.Pick it up with your fingers and lick the juice that may run down your chin. It is ready and ripe now, whenever you are. You do not need a knife or fork or spoon.For there is no coreor stemor rindor pitor seedor skinto throw away.

I dream of giving birth to a child who will ask, Mother, what was war?

Morning is a new sheet of paper for you to write on.

I dream of giving birth to a child who will ask: “Mother, what was war?”

Scratch a Jew and you’ll find a Wailing Wall.

When something is too beautiful or too terrible or even too funny for words, then it is time for poetry.