John Milton Quotes

In loving thou dost well, in passion not,
Wherein true love consists not: Love refines
The thoughts, and heart enlarges; hath his seat
In reason, and is judicious

Beholding the bright countenance of truth in the quiet and still air of delightful studies.

A poet soaring in the high reason of his fancies, with his garland and singing robes about him.

Ornate rhetoric thought out of the rule of Plato... To which poetry would be made subsequent, or indeed rather precedent, as being less subtle and fine, but more simple, sensuous, and passionate.

Consult.../what reinforcement we may gain from hope,/If not, what resolution from despair.

Sometimes people close a door because they’re trying to figure out a way to get you to knock.

Lawrence, of virtuous father virtuous son

His legions — Angel Forms, who lay entranced
Thick as autumnal leaves that strow the brooks

O nightingale, that on yon bloomy spray
Warbl'st at eve, when all the woods are still.

لابد للطامح أن يهبط فى مهوى يوازى ارتفاع التحليق

Look homeward, Angel, now, and melt with ruth.

Who reads
Incessantly, and to his reading brings not
A spirit and judgment equal or superior,
(And what he brings what needs he elsewhere seek?)
Uncertain and unsettled still remains,
Deep versed in books, and shallow in himself.

And pomp, and feast, and revelry,
With mask, and antique pageantry,
Such sights as youthful poets dream
On summer eves by haunted stream.
Then to the well-trod stage anon,
If Jonson's learned sock be on,
Or sweetest Shakespeare, Fancy's child,
Warble his native wood-notes wild,
And ever, against eating cares,
Lap me in soft Lydian airs,
Married to immortal verse
Such as the meeting soul may pierce,
In notes with many a winding bout
Of linked sweetness long drawn out.

The happy place
Imparts to thee no happiness, no joy — Rather inflames thy torment, representing
Lost bliss, to thee no more communicable;
So never more in Hell than when in Heaven.

"The stars, that nature hung in heaven, and filled their lamps with everlasting oil, give due light to the misled and lonely traveler".