State Line

Famous quotes containing the words state and/or line:

“No man’s nature is able to know what is best for the social state of man; or, knowing, always able to do what is best.”
—Plato (c. 427–347 B.C.)

“Gascoigne, Ben Jonson, Greville, Raleigh, Donne,
Poets who wrote great poems, one by one,
And spaced by many years, each line an act
Through which few labor, which no men retract.
This passion is the scholar’s heritage,”
—Yvor Winters (1900–1968)