Milton saw not, and Beethoven heard not, but the sense of beauty was upon them, and they fain must speak. — John Ruskin Copy Share Image
Milton had a highly imaginative, Cowley a very fanciful mind. — Samuel Taylor Coleridge Copy Share Image
Milton! thou should'st be living at this hour: England hath need of thee: she is a fen Of stagnant waters. — William Wordsworth Copy Share Image
Shakespeare was of us, Milton was of us, Burns, Shelley, were with us. They watch from their graves! — Robert Browning Copy Share Image
“When Alexander saw the breadth of his domain he wept, for there were no more worlds to conquer". - Milton.” — John Milton Copy Share Image
Greece, sound, thy Homer's, Rome thy Virgil's name, But England's Milton equals both in fame. — William Cowper Copy Share Image
The real reason Milton went blind was to avoid reading unsolicited manuscripts. — Rita Mae Brown Copy Share Image
Milton Berle is an inspiration to every young person that wants to get into show business. Hard work, perseverance, and discipline: all… — Dean Martin Copy Share Image
Don't you understand how dramatic it is to be a comic? To be a fool, to get people to laugh at this… — Jerry Lewis Copy Share Image
Male conspiracy cannot explain all female failures. I am convinced that, even without restrictions, there still would have been no female Pascal,… — Camille Paglia Copy Share Image
Ages elapsed ere Homer's lamp appear'd, And ages ere the Mantuan swan was heard: To carry nature lengths unknown before, To give… — William Cowper Copy Share Image
When I read 'Paradise Lost,' or 'Richard III,' it is clear that Milton and Shakespeare took real pleasure and satisfaction from creating… — Marilynne Robinson Copy Share Image
White people use their literature to maintain culture. That's why you find references to Milton and Spencer and Shakespeare and Dostoyevsky in… — Ntozake Shange Copy Share Image
“It is always the savage lads, with their love of excitement, who head the riot - reckless to what bloodshed it may… — Elizabeth Gaskell Copy Share Image
Milton Hope led the singing of Happy Birthday ... He would say, 'Keep it sweet and short and don't try to be… — Bob Hope Copy Share Image
Once, I was coming back from school, and there was this guy who was eve-teasing me and my friend. I had a… — Anushka Sharma Copy Share Image
Note for Americans and other aliens: Milton Keynes is a new city approximately halfway between London and Birmingham. It was built to… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
Where are Shakespeare's imagination, Bacon's learning, Galileo's dream? Where is the sweet fancy of Sidney, the airy spirit of Fletcher, and Milton's… — Bryan Procter Copy Share Image
I really wouldn't call a lot of what's online "literature" since that word, to me, refers to a sub-genre of writing that… — Lee Klein Copy Share Image
When I write what publishers call 'fantasy' I am writing in what I think is the most important tradition of fiction: starting… — Janet Morris Copy Share Image
My grandparents and my mother were marvelous people, but they were not particularly demonstrative in their love. It was teachers who were… — Deval Patrick Copy Share Image
His books were part of him. Each year of his life, it seemed, his books became more and more a part of… — Carl Sandburg Copy Share Image
If you read only the best, you will have no need of reading the other books, because the latter are nothing but… — Anna Brackett 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
When I stand in a library where is all the recorded wit of the world, but none of the recording, a mere… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
“The seasonal urge is strong in poets. Milton wrote chiefly in winter. Keats looked for spring to wake him up (as it… — Helen Bevington Copy Share Image
It is a shallow criticism that would define poetry as confined to literary productions in rhyme and meter rhythm. The written poem… — John Ruskin Copy Share Image
Milton Erickson was a master at using experiential techniques to elicit strengths that were previously dormant. Mills and Crowley have masterfully captured… — Jeffrey K. Zeig Copy Share Image
I've been able to dine with presidents, with leaders of corporations, traveled for 14 years with (financier and philanthropist) Michael Milken, who… — Tommy Lasorda Copy Share Image
Oh, I have feelings for him, all right. I'd like to put him in the ground myself, believe me. Still, it would… — Jeaniene Frost Copy Share Image
“The portraits, of more historical than artistic interest, had gone; and tapestry, full of the blue and bronze of peacocks, fell over… — W.B. Yeats Copy Share Image
“The mind is its own place, and in itself can make a heav’n of hell, a hell of heaven. MILTON” — Francine Rivers Copy Share Image
All great economists are tall. There are two exceptions: John Kenneth Galbraith and Milton Friedman. — George Stigler Copy Share Image
“One of Milton’s poems contains the well-known line “Look homeward, Angel, now, and melt with ruth.” — Bill Bryson Copy Share Image
Any country that has Milton Friedman as an adviser has nothing to fear from a few million Arabs. — John Kenneth Galbraith Copy Share Image
You want to prove that Milton Friedman is a fascist? It's easy. Quote him. — Arthur Laffer Copy Share Image
Milton was the first person who really experimented with putting politics into sonnets. — Robert Hass Copy Share Image
