#milton

My landlady, who is only a tailor's widow, reads her Milton; and tells me, that her late husband first fell in love with her on this very account: because she read Milton with such proper emphasis. ↗

— Karl Philipp Moritz

#because #emphasis #fell #first #her

Alexander Hamilton started the U.S. Treasury with nothing, and that was the closest our country has ever been to being even. ↗

— Will Rogers

#been #being #closest #country #even

I'd never met coffee that wasn't wonderful. It was just a matter of how wonderful it was. ↗

— Laurell K. Hamilton

#humor #laurell-k-hamilton #humor

A majority of Americans oppose partial-birth abortion, and Judge Hamilton's decision flies in the face of Congress passing and President Bush signing legislation banning such horrible acts of violence. ↗

— Marc Racicot

#acts #banning #bush #congress #decision

Tom felt his darkness. His father was beautiful and clever, his mother was short and mathematically sure. Each of his brothers and sisters had looks or gifts or fortune. Tom loved all of them passionately, but he felt heavy and earth-bound. He climbed ecstatic mountains and floundered in the rocky darkness between the peaks. He had spurts of bravery but they were bracketed in battens of cowardice. ↗

— John Steinbeck

#personality #philosophy #psychology #tom-hamilton #beauty

He was, as every truly great poet has ever been, a good man; but finding it impossible to realize his own aspirations, either in religion or politics, or society, he gave up his heart to the living spirit and light within him, and avenged himself on the world by enriching it with this record of his own transcendental ideal. ↗

— S. T. Coleridge

#john-milton #poet #religion

No poem, not even Shakespeare or Milton or Chaucer, is ever strong enough to totally exclude every crucial precursor text or poem. ↗

— Harold Bloom

#crucial #enough #even #ever #every

Read not Milton, for he is dry; nor Shakespeare, for he wrote of common life. ↗

— Charles Stuart Calverley

#dry #life #milton #nor #read

I didn't want to see George Hamilton playing me, I wanted the real thing. ↗

— Robert Evans

#hamilton #i #me #playing #real

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

#after #between #chicago #dante #difference