Gestation requires protected space; ripening requires both permeability to the outer — and non-disturbance.
Nothing is finer for the purposes of great productions than a very gradual ripening of the intellectual powers.
The whole world is one immense woman, and we are in her very womb, we are not yet born, we are joyfully ripening.
Schemes are like fruit, they require a certain ripening.
May I die like a dog rather than hasten the ripening of a sentence by a single second!