Darkness Quotes by John Milton

17 Darkness quotes by John Milton

John Milton’s verses turn night into a stage for cosmic struggle, where light and shadow clash in grand rhetoric. Seventeen selections reveal his timeless fascination with the moral and celestial dimensions of darkness.

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This horror will grow mild, this darkness light.

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Dark with excessive bright.

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Innocence, Once Lost, Can Never Be Regained. Darkness, Once Gazed Upon, Can Never Be Lost.

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Darkness now rose, as daylight sunk, and brought in low'ring Night her shadowy offspring.

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Yet from those flames No light, but rather darkness visible.

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Did I request thee, Maker, from my clay To mould me man? Did I solicit thee From darkness to promote me?

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It was that fatal and perfidious bark, Built in th' eclipse, and rigg'd with curses dark.

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The martyrs shook the powers of darkness with the irresistible power of weakness.

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The sun to me is dark And silent as the moon, When she deserts the night Hid in her vacant interlunar cave.

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“A dungeon horrible, on all sides round, As one great furnace flamed; yet from those flames No light; but rather darkness visible…

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How sweetly did they float upon the wings Of silence through the empty-vaulted night, At every fall smoothing the raven down Of…

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Confusion heard his voice, and wild uproar Stood ruled, stood vast infinitude confined; Till at his second bidding darkness fled, Light shone,…

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The very essence of truth is plainness and brightness; the darkness and crookedness is our own. The wisdom of God created understanding,…

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This horror will grow mild, this darkness light; Besides what hope the never-ending flight Of future days may bring, what chance, what…

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A dungeon horrible, on all sides round, As one great furnace, flamed; yet from those flames No light, but rather darkness visible…

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“We boast our light; but if we look not wisely on the run itself, it smites us into darkness. Who can discern…

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“Now the thought Both of lost happiness and lasting pain Torments him; round he throws his baleful eyes That witnessed huge affliction…

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What better can we do than prostrate fall before Him reverent, and there confess humbly our faults, and pardon beg with tears watering the…

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And, when night Darkens the streets, then wander forth the sons Of Belial, flown with insolence and wine.

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And, re-assembling our afflicted powers, consult how we may henceforth most offend.

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Yet hold it more humane, more heav'nly, first, By winning words to conquer willing hearts, And make persuasion do the work of fear.

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O nightingale, that on yon bloomy spray Warblest at eve, when all the woods are still; Thou with fresh hope the lover's heart dost…

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The debt immense of endless gratitude, So burthensome, still paying, still to owe; Forgetful what from him I still receivd, And understood not that…

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Knowledge forbidden? Suspicious, reasonless. Why should their Lord Envy them that? Can it be sin to know, Can it be death? And do they…

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There is no truth sure enough to justify persecution.

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These eyes, tho' clear To outward view of blemish or of spot, Bereft of light, their seeing have forgot, Nor to their idle orbs…

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New Presbyter is but Old Priest writ Large.

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And what is faith, love, virtue unassayed Alone, without exterior help sustained?

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This is servitude, To serve th'unwise, or him who hath rebelled Against his worthier, as thine now serve thee, Thyself not free, but to…

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Let us seek Death, or he not found, supply With our own hands his office on ourselves; Why stand we longer shivering under fears,…

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They are the troublers, they are the dividers of unity, who neglect and don't permit others to unite those dissevered pieces which are yet…

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