“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
“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
The ocean seemed like a sea of Eden. But now we are facing paradise lost. — Sylvia Earle 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
Paradise Lost is a book that, once put down, is very hard to pick up again. — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
“Ah! I have never regretted Paradise Lost since I discovered that it contained no eggs-and-bacon.” — Dorothy L. Sayers Copy Share Image
I would say my theme has always been paradise lost, always the lost cause, the lost leader, the lost utopia. — Marguerite Young 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
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
John Milton famously claimed, "Fame is the spur" for the poet, and indeed when we consider the six years he spent writing… — Shirley Geok-lin Lim Copy Share Image
Isn't the first story told in the West about the Fall? Adam and Eve were immigrants too from somewhere, a lost Eden,… — Andrew Lam Copy Share Image
“Ah, that's your problem," Riley said, relieved to be on familiar ground. "You've got a copy of Paradise Lost in your house.… — Jana Oliver Copy Share Image
It is commonly asserted and accepted that Paradise Lost is among the two or three greatest English poems; it may justly be… — John Drinkwater Copy Share Image
“...but which of us has read every line of the Iliad, or the Aeneid, or The Divine Comedy, or Paradise Lost? Only… — Will Durant Copy Share Image
I don't despise 'Don Quixote,' but it is a book I don't... get. I'll have to come back it. Maybe there'll be… — Helen Oyeyemi Copy Share Image
“Paradise Lost is a poem. The old, blind bastard’s trying to sing to you. Listen, as the Isley Brothers say, to the… — John Edgar Wideman 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
The preliminaries were out of the way, the creative process was about to begin. The creative process, that mystic life force, that… — Cornell Woolrich Copy Share Image
But say That death be not one stroke, as I supposed, Bereaving sense, but endless misery From this day onward, which I… — John Milton 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
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
“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
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
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
“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
“one thing that I realized early on in thinking about this book, when I found, to my consternation, that I was writing… — Philip Pullman Copy Share Image
“We passionately long for there to be another life in which we shall be similar to what we are here below. But… — Marcel Proust Copy Share Image
“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 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
“John Milton (December 9, 1608 – November 8, 1674) was an English poet, prose polemicist, and civil servant for the English Commonwealth.… — John Milton 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
“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
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
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