"Of poets I put Virgil first - he was greatest."

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Mary MacLane

#Firsts Quotes #Poet Quotes

“Bid me to live, and I will liveThy Protestant to be,Or bid me love, and I will giveA loving heart to thee.”

Source : 'To Anthea, Who May Command Him Anything'
“a bookstore is one of the few places where all the cantankerous, conflicting, alluring voices of the world co-exist in peace and order and the avid reader is as free as a person can possibly be, because she is free to choose among them.”
“Chess is changing. I hope chess is getting more popular, more spectacular.”
“[The] amount of search is not a measure of the amount of intelligence being exhibited. What makes a problem a problem is not that a large amount of search is required for its solution, but that a large amount would be required if a requisite level of intelligence were not applied.”

Source : "Computer Science as Empirical Inquiry: Symbols and Search". Communications of the ACM 19 (3), (p. 122), March 1976.
“There are some persons we could not cut down to size without diminishing ourselves as well.”

Source : Jean Rostand (1962). “The substance of man”
“I think whoever is the president [he] must guard your liberties, must not erode your rights in America.”
“I avoid looking back. I prefer good memories to regrets.”

Source : "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“Your spirit lives on in your work. YOU decide what manner of work that will be.”

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