Being an artist means, not reckoning and counting, but ripening like the tree which does not force its sap and stands confidence in the storms of spring without fear that after them may come no summer - Rainer Maria Rilke
This bud of love, by summer's ripening breath, May prove a beauteous flower when next we meet. - William Shakespeare
Wishing to be friends is quick work, but friendship is a slow ripening fruit. - Aristotle