Quotes about olive oil and what it symbolises

[Rick]

If any are even around, I would be very grateful for any eloquent,
poetic quotations made about olive oil and / or olives, in regards to
why they are highly valued and what they symbolise to people, or to
the person/s who made the quotation/s about them.

[The Sanity Inspector]

On 26 May 2002 18:11:48 -0700, cas...@hotmail.com (Rick) shared with
usenet this thought:

p&e'd

The whole Mediterranean, the sculpture, the palm, the gold
beads, the bearded heroes, the wine, the ideas, the ships, the
moonlight, the winged gorgons, the bronze men, the philosophers - all
of it seems to rise in the sour, pungent taste of these black olives
between the teeth. A taste older than meat, older than wine. A taste
as old as cold water.
-- Lawrence Durrell, 'Prospero's Cell', 1945

--
bruce
The dignified don't even enter in the game.
--The Jam

[Mark Gingrich]

Rick asked:

"What a dame, that Olive Oil."

-- Popeye

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Mark Gingrich gri...@rahul.net San Leandro, California

[Erica]

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They are so beautiful that I want to fit them all into my poem . . . I
catch them in midflight, as they buzz past, I trap them, clean them,
peel them, I set myself in front of the dish, they have a crystalline
texture to me, vibrant, ivory, vegetable, oily, like fruit, like
algae, like agates, like olives . . . And I stir them, I shake them, I
drink them, I gulp them down, I mash them, I garnish them, I let them
go . . .
~ Pablo Neruda, The Word, in Memoirs (1974)

Erica
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