English words Quote by 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

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

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

— Charles Stuart Calverley

“John Milton has, since his own lifetime, always been one of the major figures in English literature, but his reputation has changed constantly. He…

— Ronald Carter

“He is like Shakespeare, if Shakespeare had gone mad and vowed to speak in only the most convoluted terms meant to confound his listeners.”

— Perpetua Langley

“What's remarkable about Shakespeare is that he really is very good, in spite of all the people who say he is very good.”

— Robert Graves

“Shakespeare has united the powers of exciting laughter and sorrow not only in one mind, but in one composition.”

— Samuel Johnson

“It is heresy to say that we shall ever again produce a poet of Shakespeare's stature, but we have faith that when the spirit…

— Alfred B. Douglas

We must be free or die, who speak the tongue That Shakespeare spake; the faith and morals hold Which Milton held.

— William Wordsworth

Shakespeare wrote better poetry for not knowing too much; Milton , I think, knew too much finally for the good of his poetry.

— Alfred North Whitehead

“It's Shakespearean, Bill; lots of the important stuff in Shakespeare happens offstage - you just hear about it.”

— John Irving

“Suppose, for instance, that men were only represented in literature as the lovers of women, and were never the friends of men, soldiers, thinkers,…

— Virginia Woolf