Angel Quote by William Blake

“Milton was the gold standard of religious poets for English and American scholars. But Milton wrote of Hell and Heaven from above and below,…

— Matthew Pearl

“Blake said Milton was a true poet and of the Devil's party without knowing it. I am of the Devil's party and know it.”

— Philip Pullman

“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

“John Milton (December 9, 1608 – November 8, 1674) was an English poet, prose polemicist, and civil servant for the English Commonwealth. Most famed…

— John Milton

The ancients recommended us to sacrifice to the Graces, but Milton sacrificed to the Devil.

— Voltaire

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

Poetry is what Milton saw when he went blind.

— Don Marquis

Malt does more than Milton can to justify God's ways to man.

— A. E. Housman

John Milton famously claimed, "Fame is the spur" for the poet, and indeed when we consider the six years he spent writing Paradise Lost,…

— Shirley Geok-lin Lim

Milton has carefully marked in his Satan the intense selfishness, the alcohol of egotism, which would rather reign in hell than serve in heaven.

— Samuel Taylor Coleridge

And malt does more than Milton can To justify the ways of God to man.

— Alfred Edward Housman

And malt does more than Milton can to justify God's ways to man.

— A. E. Housman