Blind Quote by Don Marquis Download Open image “Poetry is what Milton saw when he went blind.” — Don Marquis ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.4 out of 5 (6 ratings) Copy quoteShare Blind He Milton Poetry Saw
The real reason Milton went blind was to avoid reading unsolicited manuscripts. — Rita Mae Brown Copy Share Image
Poets are damned but they are not blind, they see with the eyes of angels. — William Carlos Williams Copy Share Image
There are no mute, inglorious Miltons, save in the hallucinations of poets. The one sound test of a Milton is that he functions as… — H. L. Mencken 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 tyrant; a subject that recalls vividly the questions examined by Shakespeare in his major tragedies about fifty years before. Milton continued to defend his ideals of freedom and republicanism. But at the Restoration, by which time he was… — Ronald Carter Copy Share
The first thing you see in my hallway is a large 18th-century bust of Milton, who stares at me as I watch TV and… — Tony Harrison Copy Share Image
It is a shallow criticism that would define poetry as confined to literary productions in rhyme and meter rhythm. The written poem is only poetry talking, and the statue, the picture, and the musical composition are poetry acting. Milton and Goethe, at their desks, were not more truly poets than Phidias with his chisel, Raphael at his easel, or deaf… — John Ruskin Copy Share
“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 wrote Paradise… — William Gaddis Copy Share Image
Poetry is an orphan of silence. The words never quite equal the experience behind them. — Charles Simic Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
We pay for the mistakes of our ancestors, and it seems only fair that they should leave us the money to pay with. — Don Marquis Copy Share Image
A certain alloy of expediency improves the gold of morality and makes it wear all the longer. — Don Marquis Copy Share Image
In all systems of theology the devil figures as a male person. Yes, it is women who keep the church going. — Don Marquis Copy Share Image
“How often when they find a sage As sweet as Socrates or Plato They hand him hemlock for his wage Or bake him like a sweet potato!-Taking the Longer View” — Don Marquis Copy Share
For all of the creeds are false, and all of the creeds are true; And low at the shrines where my brothers bow, there will I bow too; For no form of a god, and no fashion Man has made in his desperate passion, But is worthy some worship of mine; Not too hot with a gross belief, Nor yet… — Don Marquis Copy Share
“Vibrations are the key to everything. Atoms used to be, but atoms have quite gone out.” — Don Marquis Copy Share Image
Honesty is a good thing, but it is not profitable to its possessor unless it is kept under control. — Don Marquis Copy Share Image
I once heard the survivors of a colony of ants that had been partially obliterated by a cow's foot seriously debating the intention of… — Don Marquis Copy Share Image
He worked like hell in the country so he could live in the city, where he worked like hell so he could live in… — Don Marquis Copy Share Image
... Arthur Gride, whose bleared eyes gloated only over the outward beauties, and were blind to the spirit which reigned within, evinced - a… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
“A man who saw has turned blind, A hearer deaf, A leader now leads astray!” — Miriam Lichtheim Copy Share Image
Now the stage today is to know that Self Realization gives you experiences and then your faith is established. Not blind but open enlightened… — Nirmala Srivastava Copy Share Image
The more I produce, the less I am certain. On the road along which the artist walks, night falls ever more densely. Finally, he… — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
My favorite performance would definitely be "Toxic," which was my blind audition song. It was the start of it all and it was a… — Melanie Martinez Copy Share Image
Our attitude towards evil must be freed from hatred, and has itself need to be enlightened in character...Satan rejoices when he succeeds in inspiring us with diabolical feelings to himself. It is he who wins when his own methods are used against himself...A continual denunciation of evil and its agents merely encourages its growth in the world a truth sufficiently… — Nikolai Berdyaev Copy Share
If you are the master be sometimes blind, if you are the servant be sometimes deaf. — R. Buckminster Fuller Copy Share Image
Shut your eyes and you will know what I mean by thought entombed in darkness. Light comes through the senses, and not only through… — Charles Lindbergh Copy Share Image
Blind with love, my daughter has cried nightly for horses, those long-necked marchers and churners that she has mastered, any and all, reigning them… — Anne Sexton Copy Share Image
