Status Updates From The Complete Poems

Milton: Book the First

“Urizen lay in darkness and solitude, in chains of the mind
Lock’d up”

“If you account it Wisdom when you are angry to be
Silent, and
Not to shew it: I do not account that Wisdom but Folly.”

“Hence the three Classes of Men take their fix’d
Destinations
They are the Two Contraries & the Reasoning
Negative.”

Book of Thel

“Then if thou art the food of worms, O virgin of the
Skies,
How great thy use. how great thy blessing; every thing
that lives,
Lives not alone. nor for itself: fear not and I will call
The weak worm from its lowly bed, and thou shalt hear its voice.”

“why cannot the Ear be closed to its own destruction?”

Visions of the daughters of Albion

“Art thou a flower! Art thou a nymph! I see thee now a
Flower;
Now a nymph! I dare not pluck thee from thy dewy bed!”

“Without contraries is no progression.” p180
“The road of excess leads to the palace of wisdom.” p183
“To create a little flower is the labour ages.” p185
“…but many are not capable of a firm perswasion of any thing.” p186
“For man has closed himself up, till he sees all things thro’ narrow chinks of his cavern.” p188
“The man who never alters his opinion is like standing water…” p191

“Love seeketh not Itself to please,
Nor for itself hath any care;
But for another gives its ease,
And builds a Heaven in Hells despair.” p118

“And her bosom lick,
And upon her neck,
From his eyes of flame,
Ruby tears there came;” p121

“Am not I
A fly like thee?
Or art thou
A man like me?” p124

“”When the stars threw down their spears
And water’d heaven with their tears” p125

Songs of Innocence

“And I stain’d the water clear,
And I wrote my happy songs” Intro: 18-19

“And his tongue shall be filled with praise.” The Shepherd

“They pour sleep on their head
And sit down by their bed.” Night

“Let me pull
Your soft Wool
Let me kiss
Your soft face.” Spring