Status Updates From Paradise Lost

“To short absence I could yield.
For solitude sometimes is best society” IX, 248-9

“Secure from outward force; within himself
The danger lies, yet lies within his power:
Against his will he can receive no harm.
But God left free the will” 348-51

“O much deceived, much failing, hapless Eve,
Of thy presumed return! Event perverse!” 404-5

what if you thought you were actually making progress towards a more equitable future and then the oppressor created a machine so incomprehensibly terrifying that you would rather fling yourself into the deepest pits of hell than face it. happened to my buddy satan.

“But I in none of these
Find place or refuge; and the more I see
Pleasures about me, so much more I feel
Torment within me” IX, 118-21

“For only in destroying I find ease
To my relentless thoughts” 129-30

“Man he made, and for him built
Magnificent this world, and earth his seat” 152-3

“Revenge, at first though sweet,
Bitter ere long back on itself recoils,
Let it; I reck not” 171-2

“And in herself complete, so well to know
Her own, that what she wills to do or say,
Seems wisest…best;
Authority and reason on her wait,
As one intended first, not after made” VIII, 548-55

“Love refines
The thoughts, and heart enlarges” 589-90

“Express they, by looks only, or do they mix
Irradiance, virtual or immediate touch?” 616-7

“To stand or fall
Free in thine own arbitrament it lies” 640-1