“Sport, that wrinkled Care derides, and Laughter, holding both his sides.”
John Milton Quotes · Page 2
1608 – 1674
English poet and polemicist, author of the epic 'Paradise Lost' (1667).
44 quotesAbout John Milton on Wikipedia
“Hence vain deluding Joys, the brood of Folly without father bred!”
“A poet soaring in the high reason of his fancies, with his garland and singing robes about him.”
“Methought I saw my late espousèd saint brought to me like Alcestis from the grave.”
“Sweet bird, that shunn'st the noise of folly, most musical, most melancholy!”
“But oh! as to embrace me she inclined, I waked, she fled, and day brought back my night.”
“The mind is its own place, and in itself can make a heaven of hell, a hell of heaven.”
“I neither oblige the belief of other person, nor overhastily subscribe mine own.”
“Blind mouths! That scarce themselves know how to hold a sheep-hook.”
“But O the heavy change, now thou art gone, now thou art gone and never must return!”
“So Lycidas sunk low, but mounted high, through the dear might of him that walked the waves.”
“Mirth, admit me of thy crew, to live with her, and live with thee, in unreproved pleasures free.”
“These delights, if thou canst give, Mirth, with thee, I mean to live.”
“Till old experience do attain to something like prophetic strain.”
“The oracles are dumb; no voice or hideous hum runs through the arched roof in words deceiving.”
