Quotes by John Milton

"The mind is its own place, and in itself can make a heaven of hell, a hell of heaven.."
John Milton
"What hath night to do with sleep?"
John Milton
"For books are not absolutely dead things, but do contain a potency of life in them to be as active as that soul was whose progeny they are; nay, they do preserve as in a vial the purest efficacy and extraction of that living intellect that bred them."
John Milton
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John Milton (9 December 1608 – 8 November 1674) was an English poet, polemicist, and civil servant. His 1667 epic poem Paradise Lost was written in blank verse and included 12 books, written in a time...