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
beautiful coins bliss
Beauty is Nature's coin, must not be hoarded, But must be current, and the good thereof Consists in mutual and partaken bliss.
sleep night insomnia
What hath night to do with sleep?
running dust race
I cannot praise a fugitive and cloistered virtue, unexercised and unbreathed, that never sallies out and sees her adversary, but slinks out of the race where that immortal garland is to be run for, not without dust and heat.
lonely loneliness eye
Loneliness is the first thing which God's eye named not good.
happiness inspiring recovery
The mind is its own place, and in itself, can make heaven of Hell, and a hell of Heaven.
life design luck
Luck is the residue of design.
courage revenge hate
All is not lost, the unconquerable will, and study of revenge, immortal hate, and the courage never to submit or yield.
sympathy condolences power
Apt words have power to suage the tumors of a troubled mind.
death war unconquerable-will
Better to reign in hell than serve in heav'n.
inspirational motivational positive
He who reigns within himself and rules passions, desires, and fears is more than a king.
death keys eternity-of-life
Death is the golden key that opens the palace of eternity.
summer dream children
And pomp, and feast, and revelry, With mask, and antique pageantry, Such sights as youthful poets dream On summer eves by haunted stream. Then to the well-trod stage anon, If Jonson's learned sock be on, Or sweetest Shakespeare, Fancy's child, Warble his native wood-notes wild, And ever, against eating cares, Lap me in soft Lydian airs, Married to immortal verse Such as the meeting soul may pierce, In notes with many a winding bout Of linked sweetness long drawn out.
love romantic eye
Grace was in all her steps, heaven in her eye, in every gesture dignity and love.
mind of-my-mind
Thou canst not touch the freedom of my mind.