Blessed Virgin Mary

Famous quotes containing the words blessed, virgin and/or mary:

    “Those blessed structures, plot and rhyme—
    why are they no help to me now
    I want to make
    something imagined, not recalled?”
    —Robert Lowell (1917–1977)

    “But see, the Virgin blest
    Hath laid her Babe to rest:
    Time is our tedious song should here have ending;
    Heaven’s youngest teemed star,
    Hath fixed her polished car,
    Her sleeping Lord with handmaid lamp attending;
    And all about the courtly stable,
    Bright-harnessed angels sit in order serviceable.”
    —John Milton (1608–1674)

    “A rat eats, then leaves its droppings.”
    —Hawaiian saying no. 85, ‘lelo No’Eau, collected, translated, and annotated by Mary Kawena Pukui, Bishop Museum Press, Hawaii (1983)