Dixit
Bringing something to our mouth and trying to understand its balance of flavours is a complex experience that goes far beyond the simple gesture of eating
Rosalia Cavalieri
Not that the olive spurns the sun
Richard Wilbur's
Olives are not just fruit, but relics
Predrag Matvejevic
Even when seen from near, the olive shows / A hue of far away. Perhaps for this / The dove brought olive back
Richard Wilbur's
I am a farmer
Bertrand Tavernier
The olive branch symbolizes peace
Daniela Marcheschi
When I was a child, farmers would keep olive oil under lock and key
Maurizio Maggiani
The music of oil is a polyphony embracing millenniums
Giorgio Barbaria
Let us sit beneath an olive tree and scrutinize the lines and creases of its trunk recalling faraway mysteries
Giovanni Arpino
Working in the countryside. Farming is good, and so says the Gospel
Ferdinando Camon
If cooking is seduction, then oil is a shoulder strap hanging down the arm
Maria Elena Curzio