Ohio State Library

Famous quotes containing the words ohio, state and/or library:

    “All inquiry into antiquity, all curiosity respecting the Pyramids, the excavated cities, Stonehenge, the Ohio Circles, Mexico, Memphis,—is the desire to do away this wild, savage, and preposterous There and Then, and introduce in its place the Here and Now.”
    —Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)

    “Me, rule? Me, place the State under my law, when my feeble reason no longer rules even myself!”
    —Jean Racine (1639–1699)

    “With sighs more lunar than bronchial,
    Howbeit eluding fallopian diagnosis,
    She simpers into the tribal library and reads
    That Keats died of tuberculosis . . .”
    —Allen Tate (1899–1979)