Milton Quotes

All that can best be expressed in words should be expressed in verse, but verse is a slow thing to c...

They changed their minds, Flew off, and into strange vagaries fell.

The mind is a universe and can make a heaven of hell, a hell of heaven.

For books are not absolutely dead things, but... do preserve as in a vial the purest efficacy and ex...

So spake the enemy of mankind, enclosedIn serpent, inmate bad! and toward EveAddressed his way: not ...

Whose but his own? ingrate, he had of meeAll he could have; I made him just and right,Sufficient to ...

Father, I do acknowledge and confessThat I this honor, I this pomp have broughtTo Dagon, and advanc’...

The reason Milton wrote in fetters when he wrote of Angels & God, and at liberty when of Devils & He...