“All is not lost, the unconquerable will, and study of revenge, immortal hate, and the courage never to submit or yield.”
― Paradise Lost
― Paradise Lost
“Me miserable! Which way shall I fly
Infinite wrath and infinite despair?
Which way I fly is hell; myself am hell;
And in the lowest deep a lower deep,
Still threat'ning to devour me, opens wide,
To which the hell I suffer seems a heaven.”
― Paradise Lost
Infinite wrath and infinite despair?
Which way I fly is hell; myself am hell;
And in the lowest deep a lower deep,
Still threat'ning to devour me, opens wide,
To which the hell I suffer seems a heaven.”
― Paradise Lost
“The relation between what we see and what we know is never settled. Each evening we see the sun set. We know that the earth is turning away from it. Yet the knowledge, the explanation, never quite fits the sight.”
― Ways of Seeing
― Ways of Seeing
“Never can true reconcilement grow where wounds of deadly hate have pierced so deep...”
― Paradise Lost
― Paradise Lost
“Such sweet compulsion doth in music lie.”
― The Complete Poetry
― The Complete Poetry
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