“Long is the way and hard, that out of Hell leads up to light.” ― John Milton, Paradise Lost” — Randi Cooley Wilson Copy Share Image
“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
'Paradise Lost' is one of the books which the reader admires and lays down, and forgets to take up again. None ever… — John Milton 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
Cheese for dessert is rather like Paradise Lost in that everyone thinks he ought to like it, but still you don't notice… — Peg Bracken 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
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
O fairest of creation, last and best Of all God's works, creature in whom excelled Whatever can to sight or thought be… — 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
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
“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
“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
“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
“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
“At the bottom of the box were two big fairy-tale collections our father had sent us sometime after our parents divorced in… — Mira Bartok 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
“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
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
“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
“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
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
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
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
“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
“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
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
“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
I'd read 'Paradise Lost' as an undergrad at university but remembered little about it. No, not true: I remembered few details, but… — Andrew Pyper Copy Share Image
A book I would take with me to a desert island is 'Paradise Lost,' which I studied in college and hated so… — Karin Slaughter Copy Share Image
“There are long stretches of the work [Paradise Lost] that are for anyone not theologically minded sheer howling boredom from the point… — Marco Mincoff Copy Share Image
Formerly Milton's Paradise Lost had been my chief favourite, and in my excursions during the voyage of the Beagle, when I could… — Charles Darwin Copy Share Image
“Or if they list to try Conjecture, he his fabric of the Heavens Hath left to their disputes, perhaps to move His… — John Milton Copy Share Image
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