“Christmas seems to say that paradise lost and longed for does not have to be paradise given up on.” — Craig D. Lounsbrough Copy Share Image
“Long is the way and hard, that out of Hell leads up to light.” ― John Milton, Paradise Lost” — Randi Cooley Wilson Copy Share Image
A man searching for paradise lost can seem a fool to those who never sought the other world. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
A good deal of Paradise Lost strikes one as being almost as mechanical as bricklaying. — F. R. Leavis Copy Share Image
“Ah! I have never regretted Paradise Lost since I discovered that it contained no eggs-and-bacon.” — Dorothy L. Sayers Copy Share Image
“On a wing and a prayer." (After being asked how the angels make love in Milton's Paradise Lost).” — Benjamin R. Smith Copy Share Image
I would say my theme has always been paradise lost, always the lost cause, the lost leader, the lost utopia. — Marguerite Young Copy Share Image
The ocean seemed like a sea of Eden. But now we are facing paradise lost. — Sylvia Earle Copy Share Image
“The Mona Lisa, the Mona Lisa…Leonardo had eye trouble…Art couldn't explain it…But now we're safe, since science can explain it. Maybe Milton… — William Gaddis Copy Share Image
“Or if they list to try Conjecture, he his fabric of the Heavens Hath left to their disputes, perhaps to move His… — John Milton Copy Share Image
Formerly Milton's Paradise Lost had been my chief favourite, and in my excursions during the voyage of the Beagle, when I could… — Charles Darwin Copy Share Image
“There are long stretches of the work [Paradise Lost] that are for anyone not theologically minded sheer howling boredom from the point… — Marco Mincoff Copy Share Image
A book I would take with me to a desert island is 'Paradise Lost,' which I studied in college and hated so… — Karin Slaughter Copy Share Image
I'd read 'Paradise Lost' as an undergrad at university but remembered little about it. No, not true: I remembered few details, but… — Andrew Pyper Copy Share Image
I don't believe any of you have ever read Paradise Lost, and you don't want to. That's something that you just want… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
What in me is dark Illumine, what is low raise and support, That to the height of this great argument I may… — John Milton Copy Share Image
“Long term exposure to fake things makes real things seem overly dull, demanding, expensive, messy, complicated, and pretentious. Those raised on watermelon… — Joshua Gibbs Copy Share Image
“No, never mind, I didn't think so. Mead, Dante's theme is man-not a man.' Lowell said finally with a mild patience that… — Matthew Pearl Copy Share Image
When we are mired in the relative world, never lifting our gaze to the mystery, our life is stunted, incomplete; we are… — Peter Matthiessen Copy Share Image
You will most appreciate 'Freddy and Fredericka' if you are familiar with the story of the Fall, the Good Hermit, 'Tom Jones,'… — Mark Helprin Copy Share Image
God isn't the son of Memory; He's the son of Immediate Experience. You can't worship a spirit in spirit, unless you do… — Aldous Huxley Copy Share Image
“Women ought to be religious; faith was the natural fragrance of their minds. The more incredible the things they believed, the more… — Willa Cather Copy Share Image
“It is so simple and easy to hate and so grueling and hard to love, when the emotional “love forever”- revelation has… — Erik Pevernagie Copy Share Image
But say That death be not one stroke, as I supposed, Bereaving sense, but endless misery From this day onward, which I… — John Milton Copy Share Image
“Literature before the Renaissance had frequently offered ideal patterns for living which were dominated by the ethos of the church, but after… — Ronald Carter Copy Share Image
“Milton argued, in 1649, after the execution of Charles I, that a people 'free by nature' had a right to overthrow a… — Ronald Carter Copy Share Image
“At the bottom of the box were two big fairy-tale collections our father had sent us sometime after our parents divorced in… — Mira Bartok Copy Share Image
“All this was only, in my father's estimation, a means; the end was the Earthly Paradise, the translation of William Morris's 'News… — Malcolm Muggeridge Copy Share Image
“Dad on Child-rearing: "There's no education superior to travel. Think of The Motorcycle Diaries, or what Montrose St. Millet wrote in Ages… — Marisha Pessl Copy Share Image
Okay. how about that time when you smoked all that weed that you thought was laced with something? You fell into the… — Holly Black Copy Share Image
“My husband claims I have an unhealthy obsession with secondhand bookshops. That I spend too much time daydreaming altogether. But either you… — Kathleen Tessaro Copy Share Image
“He did. He researched her. Someone told him that she had a special interest in John Milton. It did not take long… — Ian McEwan Copy Share Image
“The mind is its own place, and in itself Can make a heaven of hell, a hell of heaven.” —John Milton, Paradise… — Wendy Higgins Copy Share Image
“On a more hopeful note, she adds: “Paradise has been lost on much of our agricultural land, but I know it can… — Judith D. Schwartz Copy Share Image
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