John Milton
John Milton
John Miltonwas an English poet, polemicist, and man of letters, and a civil servant for the Commonwealth of England under Oliver Cromwell. He wrote at a time of religious flux and political upheaval, and is best known for his epic poem Paradise Lost, written in blank verse...
NationalityEnglish
ProfessionPoet
Date of Birth9 December 1608
morning stars flower
Innumerable as the stars of night, Or stars of morning, dewdrops which the sun Impearls on every leaf and every flower.
food black sin
Govern well thy appetite, lest Sin surprise thee, and her black attendant Death.
grief loss dark
O loss of sight, of thee I most complain! Blind among enemies, O worse than chains, dungeon or beggary, or decrepit age! Light, the prime work of God, to me is extinct, and all her various objects of delight annulled, which might in part my grief have eased. Inferior to the vilest now become of man or worm; the vilest here excel me, they creep, yet see; I, dark in light, exposed to daily fraud, contempt, abuse and wrong, within doors, or without, still as a fool, in power of others, never in my own; scarce half I seem to live, dead more than half.
able bears blind
To be blind is not miserable; not to be able to bear blindness, that is miserable.
communication good-communication grows
Good, the more communicated, more abundant grows.
nature done environment
Accuse not nature: she hath done her part; Do thou but thine.
god night men
And God made two great lights, great for their use To man, the greater to have rule by day, The less by night...
excellence firsts
Consider first, that great or bright infers not excellence.
half
To live a life half dead, a living death.
jealousy negative emotion
Don't hold grudges; it's pointless. Jealousy too is a non-cathartic, negative emotion. .
suffering weakness miserable
To be weak is miserable, Doing or suffering.
light essence heaven
Hail, holy light! offspring of heaven firstborn! Or of th' eternal co-eternal beam, May I express thee unblam'd? since God is light And never but in unapproached light Dwelt from eternity, dwelt then in thee, Bright effluence of bright essence increate!
life peace war
Peace hath her victories, no less renowned than War.
life patience integrity
I will not deny but that the best apology against false accusers is silence and sufferance, and honest deeds set against dishonest words.