Paradise Lost Quotes

Paradise Lost Quote of the day

What hath night to do with sleep?

Hope elevates, and joy Brightens his crest.

Who aspires must down as low As high he soar'd.

Not to know me argues yourselves unknown.

And the more I see Pleasures about me, so much more I feel Torment within me.

God is thy law, thou mine.

Pleas'd me, long choosing and beginning late.

Sole reigning holds the tyranny of Heav'n.

Make your paradise here on earth, your own little paradise

The most dangerous mistake that our souls are capable of, is, to take the creature for God, and earth for heaven (374).

. . . Most falls aren't free -- there is always the tension, it seems to me, between what you are falling from and what you are falling to.

For Man to tell how human life began is hard

A broad and ample road, whose dust is gold, And pavement stars—as starts to thee appearSoon in the galaxy, that milky wayWhich mightly as a circling zone thou seestPowder'd wiht stars.

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.

They changed their minds, Flew off, and into strange vagaries fell.