--- title: "19 John Milton Quotes by 16 authors" description: "Browse 19 John Milton quotes by 16 authors. Discover the best John Milton sayings and thoughts." image: "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/34d/wendy-higgins-2152_heaven-hell_the-mind-is-its-own-place-and-in-itself_3147825.jpg" --- > [“The mind is its own place, and in itself Can make a heaven of hell, a hell of heaven.” —John Milton, Paradise…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/wendy-higgins/the-mind-is-its-own-place-and-in-itself-can-make-a-heaven-of-hell-a-3/) [Wendy Higgins](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/wendy-higgins/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/34d/wendy-higgins-2152_heaven-hell_the-mind-is-its-own-place-and-in-itself_3147825.jpg) > [“John Milton almost single-handedly created the identity of the writer as political activist.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/anna-beer/john-milton-almost-single-handedly-created-the-identity-of-the-writer/) Anna Beer [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/300/anna-beer-94252_milton_john-milton-almost-single-handedly-creat_3113115.jpg) > [“The way to achieve your goals is step by step, you just need to build enough track, to be ahead of the…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/john-milton-lawrence/the-way-to-achieve-your-goals-is-step-by-step-you-just-need-to-build/) John Milton Lawrence [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/88c/john-milton-lawrence-249495_fitness_the-way-to-achieve-your-goals-is-step-by_823232.jpg) > [“Long is the way and hard, that out of Hell leads up to light.” ― John Milton, Paradise Lost”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/randi-cooley-wilson/long-is-the-way-and-hard-that-out-of-hell-leads-up-to-light-john/) [Randi Cooley Wilson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/randi-cooley-wilson/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/a8b/randi-cooley-wilson-37011_paradise-lost_long-is-the-way-and-hard-that-out-of-hel_1059823.jpg) > [John Milton famously claimed, "Fame is the spur" for the poet, and indeed when we consider the six years he spent writing…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/shirley-geok-lin-lim/john-milton-famously-claimed-fame-is-the-spur-for-the-poet-and-indeed/) [Shirley Geok-lin Lim](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/shirley-geok-lin-lim/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/066/shirley-geok-lin-lim-3190_fame_john-milton-famously-claimed-fame-is-the_1247127.png) > [“What kind of dark, twisted mind preys on young women? I think it was Poe that said the death of a beautiful…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/bruce-crown/what-kind-of-dark-twisted-mind-preys-on-young-women-i-think-it-was/) [Bruce Crown](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/bruce-crown/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/dd1/bruce-crown-23015_allen_what-kind-of-dark-twisted-mind-preys-on_371678.jpg) > [“So hand in hand they passed, the loveliest pair that ever since in love’s embraces met –Adam, the goodliest man of men…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/randi-cooley-wilson/so-hand-in-hand-they-passed-the-loveliest-pair-that-ever-since-in-2/) [Randi Cooley Wilson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/randi-cooley-wilson/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/661/randi-cooley-wilson-37011_children_so-hand-in-hand-they-passed-the-lovelies_2080135.jpg) > [“Or if they list to try Conjecture, he his fabric of the Heavens Hath left to their disputes, perhaps to move His…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/john-milton/or-if-they-list-to-try-conjecture-he-his-fabric-of-the-heavens-hath/) [John Milton](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/john-milton/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/73b/john-milton-191_paradise-lost_or-if-they-list-to-try-conjecture-he-his_1747339.jpg) > [If any issue should unite liberals and conservatives, anyone who cares about the integrity of human achievement or respect for human accomplishment,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/stephen-jay-gould/if-any-issue-should-unite-liberals-and-conservatives-anyone-who-cares/) [Stephen Jay Gould](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/stephen-jay-gould/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/099/stephen-jay-gould-885_accomplishment_if-any-issue-should-unite-liberals-and-c_1246645.jpg) > [The slave will be free. Democracy in America will yet be a glorious reality; and when the top-stone of that temple of…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/john-greenleaf-whittier/the-slave-will-be-free-democracy-in-america-will-yet-be-a-glorious/) [John Greenleaf Whittier](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/john-greenleaf-whittier/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/bcb/john-greenleaf-whittier-2061_america_the-slave-will-be-free-democracy-in-amer_1110439.png) > [His books were part of him. Each year of his life, it seemed, his books became more and more a part of…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/carl-sandburg/his-books-were-part-of-him-each-year-of-his-life-it-seemed-his-books/) [Carl Sandburg](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/carl-sandburg/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/ea7/carl-sandburg-952_book_his-books-were-part-of-him-each-year-of_743380.jpg) > [“Dorothea, with all her eagerness to know the truths of life, retained very childlike ideas about marriage. She felt sure that she…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/george-eliot/dorothea-with-all-her-eagerness-to-know-the-truths-of-life-retained/) [George Eliot](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/george-eliot/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/c1d/george-eliot-84_great-men_dorothea-with-all-her-eagerness-to-know_2713358.png) > [“She felt sure that she would have accepted the judicious Hooker, if she had been born in time to save him from…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/george-eliot/she-felt-sure-that-she-would-have-accepted-the-judicious-hooker-if/) [George Eliot](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/george-eliot/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/246/george-eliot-84_failure_she-felt-sure-that-she-would-have-accept_1744533.jpg) > [“There are hints of child sacrifice in Genesis and Exodus, including Abraham’s willingness to sacrifice Isaac. Human sacrifice was long associated with…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/simon-sebag-montefiore/there-are-hints-of-child-sacrifice-in-genesis-and-exodus-including/) [Simon Sebag Montefiore](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/simon-sebag-montefiore/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/93c/simon-sebag-montefiore-2994_children_there-are-hints-of-child-sacrifice-in-ge_2888348.jpg) > [“They may be despised, but God has made them like warriors, like David, who would go down into the pit in the…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/charles-haddon-spurgeon/they-may-be-despised-but-god-has-made-them-like-warriors-like-david/) [Charles Haddon Spurgeon](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/charles-haddon-spurgeon/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/730/charles-haddon-spurgeon-4749_christianity_they-may-be-despised-but-god-has-made-th_1104642.jpg) > [“John Milton (December 9, 1608 – November 8, 1674) was an English poet, prose polemicist, and civil servant for the English Commonwealth.…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/john-milton/john-milton-december-9-1608-november-8-1674-was-an-english-poet-prose/) [John Milton](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/john-milton/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/823/john-milton-191_poetry_john-milton-december-9-1608-november-8-1_1263892.png) > [“He did. He researched her. Someone told him that she had a special interest in John Milton. It did not take long…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ian-mcewan/he-did-he-researched-her-someone-told-him-that-she-had-a-special/) [Ian McEwan](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ian-mcewan/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/0ac/ian-mcewan-494_books_he-did-he-researched-her-someone-told-hi_2464021.png) > [“John Milton has, since his own lifetime, always been one of the major figures in English literature, but his reputation has changed…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ronald-carter/john-milton-has-since-his-own-lifetime-always-been-one-of-the-major/) [Ronald Carter](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ronald-carter/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/c64/ronald-carter-13636_books_john-milton-has-since-his-own-lifetime-a_1474109.jpg) > [“The English major is, first of all, a reader. She's got a book pup-tented in front of her nose many hours a…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/mark-edmundson/the-english-major-is-first-of-all-a-reader-she-s-got-a-book-pup/) [Mark Edmundson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/mark-edmundson/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/4e9/mark-edmundson-35432_books_the-english-major-is-first-of-all-a-read_2023301.jpg) ```json { "@context": "https://schema.org", "@graph": [ { "@type": "ItemList", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/john-milton/#itemlist", "name": "John Milton Quotes", "numberOfItems": 19, "itemListElement": [ { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 1, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "“The mind is its own place, and in itself Can make a heaven of hell, a hell of heaven.” —John Milton, Paradise Lost”", "creator": { "@type": "Person", "name": "Wendy Higgins" }, "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/wendy-higgins/the-mind-is-its-own-place-and-in-itself-can-make-a-heaven-of-hell-a-3/", "image": { "@type": 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The really delightful marriage must be that where your husband was a sort of father, and could teach you even Hebrew, if you wished it.”", "creator": { "@type": "Person", "name": "George Eliot" }, "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/george-eliot/dorothea-with-all-her-eagerness-to-know-the-truths-of-life-retained/", "image": { "@type": "ImageObject", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/c1d/george-eliot-84_great-men_dorothea-with-all-her-eagerness-to-know_2713358.png", "contentUrl": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/c1d/george-eliot-84_great-men_dorothea-with-all-her-eagerness-to-know_2713358.png", "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/c1d/george-eliot-84_great-men_dorothea-with-all-her-eagerness-to-know_2713358.png", "width": 1080, "height": 1080, "caption": "“Dorothea, with all her eagerness to know the truths of life, retained very childlike ideas about marriage…” — George Eliot", "creditText": "SMS4Smile Quotes", "creator": { "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/#organization" } } } }, { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 13, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "“She felt sure that she would have accepted the judicious Hooker, if she had been born in time to save him from that wretched mistake he made in matrimony; or John Milton when his blindness had come on; or any of the other great men whose odd habits it would have been glorious piety to endure; but an amiable handsome baronet, who said \"Exactly\" to her remarks even when she expressed uncertainty,—how could he affect her as a lover? 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Human sacrifice was long associated with Canaanite and Phoenician ritual. Much later, Roman and Greek historians ascribed this dastardly practice to the Carthaginians, those descendants of the Phoenicians. Yet very little evidence was discovered until the early 1920s, when two French colonial officials in Tunisia found a tophet, with buried urns and inscriptions in a field. They bore the letters MLK (as in molok, offering) and contained the burned bones of children and the telling message of a victim’s father reading: “It was to Baal that Bomilcar vowed this son of his own flesh. Bless him!” These finds may have coincided with the time of Manasseh, implying that the biblical stories were plausible. Molok (offering) was distorted into the biblical “moloch,” the definition of the cruel idolatrous god and, later in Western literature, particularly in John Milton’s Paradise Lost, one of Satan’s fallen angels. Gehenna in Jerusalem became not just hell, but the place where Judas invested his ill-gotten silver pieces and during the Middle Ages the site of mass charnel-houses. 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We have people like that in our churches--I admit, only a few--who are not afraid to serve their God; who like Abdiel in John Milton’s Paradise Lost can be described as “faithful amongst the faithless found.” We have some who rise above the accepted way of the times, who refuse to bow to the god of money, who will not use the guarded language of too many modern ministers, but stand out for God’s gospel, who unfurl the banner of Christ, spotless and unstained by the doctrines of men. That is when they are mighty! They are mighty because God has put strength in them.”", "creator": { "@type": "Person", "name": "Charles Haddon Spurgeon" }, "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/charles-haddon-spurgeon/they-may-be-despised-but-god-has-made-them-like-warriors-like-david/", "image": { "@type": "ImageObject", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/730/charles-haddon-spurgeon-4749_christianity_they-may-be-despised-but-god-has-made-th_1104642.jpg", "contentUrl": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/730/charles-haddon-spurgeon-4749_christianity_they-may-be-despised-but-god-has-made-th_1104642.jpg", "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/730/charles-haddon-spurgeon-4749_christianity_they-may-be-despised-but-god-has-made-th_1104642.jpg", "width": 1080, "height": 1080, "caption": "“They may be despised, but God has made them like warriors, like David, who would go down into the pit in the…” — Charles Haddon Spurgeon", "creditText": "SMS4Smile Quotes", "creator": { "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/#organization" } } } }, { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 16, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "“John Milton (December 9, 1608 – November 8, 1674) was an English poet, prose polemicist, and civil servant for the English Commonwealth. Most famed for his epic poem Paradise Lost, Milton is celebrated as well for his eloquent treatise condemning censorship, Areopagitica. Long considered the supreme English poet, Milton experienced a dip in popularity after attacks by T.S. Eliot and F.R. Leavis in the mid 20th century; but with multiple societies and scholarly journals devoted to his study, Milton’s reputation remains as strong as ever in the 21st century. Very soon after his death – and continuing to the present day – Milton became the subject of partisan biographies, confirming T.S. Eliot’s belief that “of no other poet is it so difficult to consider the poetry simply as poetry, without our theological and political dispositions…making unlawful entry.” Milton’s radical, republican politics and heretical religious views, coupled with the perceived artificiality of his complicated Latinate verse, alienated Eliot and other readers; yet by dint of the overriding influence of his poetry and personality on subsequent generations—particularly the Romantic movement—the man whom Samuel Johnson disparaged as “an acrimonious and surly republican” must be counted one of the most significant writers and thinkers of all time. Source: Wikipedia”", "creator": { "@type": "Person", "name": "John Milton" }, "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/john-milton/john-milton-december-9-1608-november-8-1674-was-an-english-poet-prose/", "image": { "@type": "ImageObject", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/823/john-milton-191_poetry_john-milton-december-9-1608-november-8-1_1263892.png", "contentUrl": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/823/john-milton-191_poetry_john-milton-december-9-1608-november-8-1_1263892.png", "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/823/john-milton-191_poetry_john-milton-december-9-1608-november-8-1_1263892.png", "width": 1080, "height": 1080, "caption": "“John Milton (December 9, 1608 – November 8, 1674) was an English poet, prose polemicist, and civil servant…” — John Milton", "creditText": "SMS4Smile Quotes", "creator": { "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/#organization" } } } }, { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 17, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "“He did. He researched her. Someone told him that she had a special interest in John Milton. It did not take long to discover the century to which this man belonged. A third-year literature student in Beard’s college who owed him a favor (for procuring tickets to a Cream concert) gave him an hour on Milton, what to read, what to think. He read “Comus” and was astounded by its silliness. He read through “Lycidas,” “Samson Agonistes,” and “Il Penseroso”— stilted and rather prissy in parts, he thought. He fared better with “Paradise Lost” and, like many before him, preferred Satan’s party to God’s. He, Beard, that is, memorized passages that appeared to him intelligent and especially sonorous. He read a biography, and four essays that he had been told were pivotal. The reading took him one long week. He came close to being thrown out of an antiquarian bookshop in the Turl when he casually asked for a first edition of “Paradise Lost.” He tracked down a kindly tutor who knew about buying old books and confided to him that he wanted to impress a girl with a certain kind of present, and was directed to a bookshop in Covent Garden where he spent half a term’s money on an eighteenth-century edition of “Areopagitica.” When he speed-read it on the train back to Oxford, one of the pages cracked in two. He repaired it with Sellotape.”", "creator": { "@type": "Person", "name": "Ian McEwan" }, "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ian-mcewan/he-did-he-researched-her-someone-told-him-that-she-had-a-special/", "image": { "@type": "ImageObject", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/0ac/ian-mcewan-494_books_he-did-he-researched-her-someone-told-hi_2464021.png", "contentUrl": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/0ac/ian-mcewan-494_books_he-did-he-researched-her-someone-told-hi_2464021.png", "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/0ac/ian-mcewan-494_books_he-did-he-researched-her-someone-told-hi_2464021.png", "width": 1080, "height": 1080, "caption": "“He did. He researched her. Someone told him that she had a special interest in John Milton. 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The basis of his aesthetic studies was classical, but the modernity of his intellectual interests can be seen in the fact that he went to Italy (in the late 1630s) where he met the astronomer Galileo, who had been condemned as a heretic by the Catholic church for saying the earth moved around the sun.”", "creator": { "@type": "Person", "name": "Ronald Carter" }, "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ronald-carter/john-milton-has-since-his-own-lifetime-always-been-one-of-the-major/", "image": { "@type": "ImageObject", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/c64/ronald-carter-13636_books_john-milton-has-since-his-own-lifetime-a_1474109.jpg", "contentUrl": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/c64/ronald-carter-13636_books_john-milton-has-since-his-own-lifetime-a_1474109.jpg", "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/c64/ronald-carter-13636_books_john-milton-has-since-his-own-lifetime-a_1474109.jpg", "width": 1080, "height": 1080, "caption": "“John Milton has, since his own lifetime, always been one of the major figures in English literature, but his…” — Ronald Carter", "creditText": "SMS4Smile Quotes", "creator": { "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/#organization" } } } }, { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 19, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "“The English major is, first of all, a reader. She's got a book pup-tented in front of her nose many hours a day; her Kindle glows softly late into the night. But there are readers and there are readers. There are people who read to anesthetize themselves—they read to induce a vivid, continuous, and risk-free daydream. They read for the same reason that people grab a glass of chardonnay—to put a light buzz on. The English major reads because, as rich as the one life he has may be, one life is not enough. He reads not to see the world through the eyes of other people but effectively to become other people. What is it like to be John Milton, Jane Austen, Chinua Achebe? 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