Michael Quote by John Irving

“John Milton almost single-handedly created the identity of the writer as political activist.”

— Anna Beer

“He was like a statue being chiseled away from the inside, hollowed out. As more and more of his thoughts gave him pain, Milton…

— Jeffrey Eugenides

“Gilbert Keith Chesterton (that fabulously large Catholic writer) overheard someone making fun of Milton (it didn't matter that the insults were all true).”

— N.D. Wilson

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

“Long is the way and hard, that out of Hell leads up to light.” ― John Milton, Paradise Lost”

— Randi Cooley Wilson

“Thus Milton describes our first frail mother; though when he tells us that women are formed for softness and sweet attractive grace, I cannot…

— Mary Wollstonecraft

“Part of what Milton valued in a good book then was contact with the mind of an author rendered otherwise inaccessible by distance or…

— Leland Ryken

“Milton argued, in 1649, after the execution of Charles I, that a people 'free by nature' had a right to overthrow a tyrant; a…

— Ronald Carter

That mighty orb of song, The divine Milton.

— William Wordsworth

“They're just words, he told himself, they don't matter. But he knew that wasn't completely true. The words themselves were only part of the…

— Michael Griffo

“It's all about finding the real meaning, without it everything is meaningless.”

— Sahel Akmal

“Or if they list to try Conjecture, he his fabric of the Heavens Hath left to their disputes, perhaps to move His laughter at…

— John Milton