Mary Immaculate Hospital

Famous quotes containing the words mary, immaculate and/or hospital:

    “Parenting is the one area of my life where I can feel incompetent, out of control and like a total failure all of the time.”
    —Attorney Father. As quoted in Reviving Ophelia, by Mary Pipher, ch. 4 (1994)

    “The poem refreshes life so that we share,
    For a moment, the first idea . . . It satisfies
    Belief in an immaculate beginning
    And sends us, winged by an unconscious will,
    To an immaculate end. We move between these points:
    From that ever-early candor to its late plural....”
    —Wallace Stevens (1879–1955)

    “The sun his hand uncloses like a statue,
    Irrevocably: thereby such light is freed
    That all the dingy hospital of snow
    Dies back to ditches.”
    —Philip Larkin (1922–1986)