Famous quotes containing the words blessed, virgin and/or mary:
“Niobe would have been called most blessed of mothers,
had she not seemed so herself.”
—Ovid (Publius Ovidius Naso)
“For often at Church I’ve seen the stained high glass
Pour out the Virgin and Saints, twist and untwist
The mortal youth of Christ astride an ass.”
—Allen Tate (1899–1979)
“If Mary came would Mary
Forgive, as Mothers may,
And sad and second Saviour
Furnish us today?”
—Gwendolyn Brooks (b. 1917)