Knowing Quote by Alfred North Whitehead

The passages in which Milton has alluded to his own circumstances are perhaps read more frequently, and with more interest, than any other lines…

— Thomas B. Macaulay

Who knows if Shakespeare might not have thought less if he had read more?

— Edward Young

“No one, not even Shakespeare, surpasses Milton in his command of the sound, the music, the weight and taste and texture of English words.”

— Philip Pullman

The sightless Milton, with his hair Around his placid temples curled; And Shakespeare at his side,-a freight, If clay could think and mind were…

— William Wordsworth

Read not Milton, for he is dry; nor Shakespeare, for he wrote of common life.

— Charles Stuart Calverley

If you like poetry let it be first rate, Milton, Shakespeare, Thomson, Goldsmith Pope (if you will though I don't admire him), Scott, Byron,…

— Charlotte Bronte

When I stand in a library where is all the recorded wit of the world, but none of the recording, a mere accumulated, and…

— Henry David Thoreau

Shakespeare's fault is not the greatest into which a poet may fall. It merely indicates a deficiency of taste.

— Denis Diderot

“I am alive to a usual objection to what is clearly part of my programme for the metier of poetry. The objection is that…

— T.S. Eliot

Poetry is what Milton saw when he went blind.

— Don Marquis

To know anything of a poet but his poetry is, so far as the poetry is concerned, to know something that may be entertaining,…

— John Drinkwater

What we know is that Shakespeare wrote perhaps the most remarkable body of passionate love poetry in the English language to a young man.

— Stephen Greenblatt