(26 quotes found)
“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.”
Carl Sandburg
“The characteristic of Chaucer is intensity: of Spencer, remoteness: of Milton elevation and of Shakespeare everything.”
William Hazlitt
“After the erection of the Chinese Wall of Milton, blank verse has suffered not only arrest but retrogression.”
T.S. Eliot
“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.”
William Blake
“When a damp/ Fell round the path of Milton, in his hand/ The thing became a trumpet; whence he blew/ Soul-animating strains - alas, too few!”
William Wordsworth
“I think our offense is even better than last year. Milton and Frank, I mean, look at the hits they had tonight. It's nice to see them in the lineup.”
Dan Haren
“I think this year our offense is even better with Milton and Frank. I mean, look at the hits those guys got tonight. They already have a few big hits for us. That's exciting to see them in the lineup.”
“The only ones who like Milton Berle are his mother-and the public.”
Walter Winchell
“Things haven't panned out for him at Milton Keynes Dons and he now has the chance to put himself on display.”
Colin Todd
“Poetry is what Milton saw when he went blind.”
Don Marquis
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