“Christmas seems to say that paradise lost and longed for does not have to be paradise given up on.” — Craig D. Lounsbrough Copy Share Image
“Long is the way and hard, that out of Hell leads up to light.” ― John Milton, Paradise Lost” — Randi Cooley Wilson Copy Share Image
A good deal of Paradise Lost strikes one as being almost as mechanical as bricklaying. — F. R. Leavis Copy Share Image
A man searching for paradise lost can seem a fool to those who never sought the other world. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Paradise Lost is a book that, once put down, is very hard to pick up again. — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
I'm not really one for fancy, big words and poetry, and the scriptwriters worked very hard on 'Paradise Lost' to translate it. — Callan McAuliffe Copy Share Image
The ocean seemed like a sea of Eden. But now we are facing paradise lost. — Sylvia Earle 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
There is only one sin and it is: weakness. When I was a boy, I read Milton's Paradise Lost. The only good… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
“Nostalgia is not for the God who is missing to us, it is a nostalgia for ourselves, for we do not sustain… — Clarice Lispector Copy Share Image
The glory of the disposition that stops to consider stimuli rather than rushing to engage with them is its long association with… — Susan Cain Copy Share Image
“So hand in hand they passed, the loveliest pair that ever since in love’s embraces met –Adam, the goodliest man of men… — Randi Cooley Wilson 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
I don't believe any of you have ever read Paradise Lost, and you don't want to. That's something that you just want… — Mark Twain 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
When you look at the original 'Paradise Lost' film, you see three kids who can't defend themselves, being persecuted in a medieval… — Peter Jackson Copy Share Image
“Women ought to be religious; faith was the natural fragrance of their minds. The more incredible the things they believed, the more… — Willa Cather Copy Share Image
You will most appreciate 'Freddy and Fredericka' if you are familiar with the story of the Fall, the Good Hermit, 'Tom Jones,'… — Mark Helprin Copy Share Image
God isn't the son of Memory; He's the son of Immediate Experience. You can't worship a spirit in spirit, unless you do… — Aldous Huxley Copy Share Image
When we are mired in the relative world, never lifting our gaze to the mystery, our life is stunted, incomplete; we are… — Peter Matthiessen Copy Share Image
“No, never mind, I didn't think so. Mead, Dante's theme is man-not a man.' Lowell said finally with a mild patience that… — Matthew Pearl Copy Share Image
“Long term exposure to fake things makes real things seem overly dull, demanding, expensive, messy, complicated, and pretentious. Those raised on watermelon… — Joshua Gibbs Copy Share Image
All three of my books, "Perfume Dreams: Reflections on the Vietnamese Diaspora," "East Eats West: Writing in Two Hemispheres," and "Birds of… — Andrew Lam Copy Share Image
“It is so simple and easy to hate and so grueling and hard to love, when the emotional “love forever”- revelation has… — Erik Pevernagie Copy Share Image
“Sometimes it comes down to a choice," Magnus said. "Between saving one person and saving the whole world. I've seen it happen,… — Cassandra Clare 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
“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
“All this was only, in my father's estimation, a means; the end was the Earthly Paradise, the translation of William Morris's 'News… — Malcolm Muggeridge Copy Share Image
“Dad on Child-rearing: "There's no education superior to travel. Think of The Motorcycle Diaries, or what Montrose St. Millet wrote in Ages… — Marisha Pessl Copy Share Image
Okay. how about that time when you smoked all that weed that you thought was laced with something? You fell into the… — Holly Black Copy Share Image
“Literature before the Renaissance had frequently offered ideal patterns for living which were dominated by the ethos of the church, but after… — Ronald Carter Copy Share Image
“Milton argued, in 1649, after the execution of Charles I, that a people 'free by nature' had a right to overthrow a… — Ronald Carter Copy Share Image
“On a more hopeful note, she adds: “Paradise has been lost on much of our agricultural land, but I know it can… — Judith D. Schwartz Copy Share Image
“On a wing and a prayer." (After being asked how the angels make love in Milton's Paradise Lost).” — Benjamin R. Smith Copy Share Image
