Quotes about Milton
Evil into the mind of God or man May come and go, so unapprov'd, and leave No spot or stain behind. Milton.
— Samuel Johnson
They themselves ordained their Fall. The first sort by their own suggestion fell Self-tempted, self-depraved.
— John Milton
On the Morning of Christ's Nativity Perhaps their loves, or else their sheep, was all that did their silly thoughts so busy keep.
— John Milton
Even the demons are encouraged when their chief is "not lost in loss itself.
— John Milton
Squat like a toad, close at the ear of Eve.
— John Milton
witness- Heaven, What love sincere and reverence in my heart I bear thee
— John Milton
To do ought good never will be our task, But ever to do ill our sole delight, As being the contrary to his high will Whom we resist.
— John Milton
Such sober certainty of waking bliss.
— John Milton
But that might be unfair. It is hard not to notice how much more attention is given to hell rather than heaven. Dante's Inferno beats out Paradisio every time. Milton's brilliantly rendered pre-paradise world, known as Chaos, is far more fully realized than his Paradise. The visionary language of the doomed reaches heights of linguistic ardor with which language of the blessed and saved cannot compete.
— Toni Morrison
May I express thee unblam'd? since God is light, And never but in unapproached light Dwelt from Eternitie, dwelt then in thee, Bright effluence of bright essence increate. Or
— John Milton
Into a limbo large and broad, since calledThe Paradise of Fools, to few unknown.
— John Milton
Death Grinn'd horrible a ghastly smile, to hear His famine should be fill'd.
— John Milton