You should go to a pear tree for pears, not to an elm. - Publilius Syrus
I feel my brains, like a pear, to see if it's ripe; it will be exquisite by September. - Virginia Woolf
As for my next book, I won't write it till it has grown heavy in my mind like a ripe pear; pendant, gravid, asking to be cut or it will fall. - Virginia Woolf
There are only ten minutes in the life of a pear when it is perfect to eat. - Ralph Waldo Emerson
How are poets able to unzip what they see around them, calling forth a truer essence from behind a common fact? Why, reading a verse about a pear, do you see past the fruit in so transcendent a way? - Elizabeth Berg