One of Milton’s poems contains the well-known line “Look…

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

— John Milton

Ginsberg's Collected Poems contains a wonderful poem about making it with Neal Cassady.

— Thom Gunn

I mark the reading of 'Look Homeward, Angel' as one of the pivotal events of my life. It starts off with the single greatest,…

— Pat Conroy

“David McKay, 1900. Wolfe, Thomas. Look Homeward, Angel. New York: Simon and Schuster, 1929. Yeats, William Butler. A Vision”

— James Hollis

The passages in which Milton has alluded to his own circumstances are perhaps read more frequently, and with more interest, than any other lines…

— Thomas B. Macaulay

Milton almost requires a solemn service of music to be played before you enter upon him. But he brings his music, to which who…

— Charles Lamb

White people use their literature to maintain culture. That's why you find references to Milton and Spencer and Shakespeare and Dostoyevsky in contemporary novels.

— Ntozake Shange

When I write what publishers call 'fantasy' I am writing in what I think is the most important tradition of fiction: starting with Homer…

— Janet Morris

When I stand in a library where is all the recorded wit of the world, but none of the recording, a mere accumulated, and…

— Henry David Thoreau

“you can do against Milton.”

— Stan Berenstain

When the economy was going up, [Milton Friedman and I] both gave the same advice, and when the economy was going down, we gave…

— Paul Samuelson

You want to prove that Milton Friedman is a fascist? It's easy. Quote him.

— Arthur Laffer

“The mind is its own place, and in itself can make a heav’n of hell, a hell of heaven. MILTON”

— Francine Rivers

Formerly Milton's Paradise Lost had been my chief favourite, and in my excursions during the voyage of the Beagle, when I could take only…

— Charles Darwin

May the soul of the late President Milton Obote... a long-time member of this parliament, rest in peace.

— Yoweri Museveni