From the Essay on Criticism

Be not the first by whom the new are tried,
Nor yet the last to lay the old aside.

—Alexander Pope, An Essay on Criticism, 1711

[It's hard to decide whom I would like to meet in person more—Swift, or Pope. I'm leaning toward Swift, but then I read more Pope, and I think, well...]

I've got a good idea what Pope might be like. But Swift—no. I would really, really, really like to get a glimpse of Swift. Not to say, "well, hello, mr swift," but instead to just have a glimpse of the living person. I don't need to "have lunch" or "meet" him—no, I'd just like to have a glimpse.

Most decidedly a stupid desire, but there you are.