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«And malt does more than Milton can To justify the ways of God to man»
Author: Alfred Edward Housman | Keywords: malt, Milton
«Milton Berle is an inspiration to every young person that wants to get into show business. Hard work, perseverance, and discipline: all the things you need...when you have no talent.»
«Here is the difference between Dante, Milton, and me. They wrote about hell and never saw the place. I wrote about Chicago after looking the town over for years and years.»
«Greece, sound thy Homer's, Rome thy Virgil's name, / But England's Milton equals both in fame.»
Author: William Cowper (Poet) | Keywords: equals, Greece, homer, Milton, Rome, Virgil
«Poetry is what Milton saw when he went blind.»
Author: Don Marquis (Columnist, Novelist, Playwright, Poet, Writer) | About: Poetry | Keywords: Milton
«Milton . . . was a genius that could cut a Colossus from a rock, but could not carve heads upon cherry-stones.»
«After the erection of the Chinese Wall of Milton, blank verse has suffered not only arrest but retrogression.»
«The reason Milton wrote in fetters when he wrote of Angels and God, and at liberty when of Devils and Hell, is because he was a true poet, and of the Devil's party without knowing it.»
«The characteristic of Chaucer is intensity: of Spencer, remoteness: of Milton elevation and of Shakespeare everything.»