John Milton (1608-1674) was an English poet and intellectual. His 1667 epic poem Paradise Lost, written in blank verse and including over ten chapters, was written in a time of immense religious flux and political upheaval.
John Milton Quotes
The law of God exact he shall fulfill Both by obedience and by love, though love Alone fulfil the law: thy punishment He shall endure by coming in the flesh To a reproachful life and cursed death
—John Milton
Whose fault? Whose but his own? Ingrate, he had of me All he could have; I made him just and right; Sufficient to have stood, though free to fall.
—John Milton
So dear I love him, that with him all deaths I could endure, without him live no life.
—John Milton
The stars, that nature hung in heaven, and filled their lamps with everlasting oil, give due light to the misled and lonely traveler.
—John Milton
Long is the way and hard, that out of Hell leads up to light.
—John Milton
Part of my soul I seek thee, and claim thee my other half.
—John Milton
Silence was pleased.
—John Milton
They who have put out the people’s eyes reproach them of their blindness.
—John Milton