Because the great thing about fairy tales and folk tales is that there is no authentic text. It's not like the text… — Philip Pullman Copy Share Image
“The Bible begins with paradise lost, at which time pain, suffering, and death first entered the human race. The Bible ends with… — Ron Rhodes Copy Share Image
“Pearl introduces an original story, in a form which was to become one of the most frequent in mediaeval literature, the dream-vision.… — Ronald Carter 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
“No, there's more to life than this. . .That was the past, but there is a future. Now we know. We dare… — Clifford Odets 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
“There are hints of child sacrifice in Genesis and Exodus, including Abraham’s willingness to sacrifice Isaac. Human sacrifice was long associated with… — Simon Sebag Montefiore 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
To admire Satan [in Paradise Lost] is to give one's vote not only for a world of misery, but also for a… — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
“We dream much of paradise, or rather of a number of successive paradises, but each of them is, long before we die,… — Marcel Proust 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