John Milton Quotes on Poetry

Explore John Milton’s timeless quotes on Poetry, including thoughts on Poetry. Discover the best John Milton Poetry quotes.

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1. “I thence invoke my thy aid to my adventurous song, That with no middle flight intends to soar above the Aonian mount, while it pursues Things unattempted yet in prose or rhyme.”

John Milton

Inspiration, Ambition, Poetry, Creativity, Literary Aspiration

2. “What in me is dark Illumine, what is low raise and support, That to the height of this great argument I may assert eternal Providence, And justify the ways of God to men. 1 Paradise Lost. Book i. Line 22.”

John Milton

Divine Inspiration, Enlightenment, Providence, Poetry, Spiritual Quest

3. “Meadows trim with daisies pied, Shallow brooks and rivers wide Towers and battlements it sees Bosom'd high in tufted trees, Where perhaps some beauty lies, The cynosure of neighboring eyes.”

John Milton

Nature, Beauty, Landscape, Pastoral, Poetry

4. “With cowslips wan that hang the pensive head, And every flower that sad embroidery wears.”

John Milton

Nature, Melancholy, Flowers, Poetry, Imagery

5. “Sweetest Echo, sweetest nymph, that liv'st unseen Within thy airy shell, By slow Meander's margent green, And in the violet-embroidered vale.”

John Milton

Nature, Mythology, Poetry, Sound, Beauty

6. “He touch'd the tender stops of various quills, With eager thought warbling his Doric lay.”

John Milton

Music, Poetry, Creativity, Expression, Artistic Skill

7. “Yet once more, O ye laurels, and once more Ye myrtles brown, with ivy never sere, I come to pluck your berries harsh and crude, And with forced fingers rude Shatter your leaves before the mellowing year.”

John Milton

Poetry, Nature, Creativity, Mortality, Artistic Process

8. “Such sights as youthful poets dream On summer eves by haunted stream. Then to the well-trod stage anon, If Jonson's learned sock be on, Or sweetest Shakespeare, Fancy's child, Warble his native wood-notes wild.”

John Milton

Poetry, Imagination, Nature, Theater, Literary Appreciation