John Milton Quotes About Poetry

Quotes about: Poetry

• Ornate rhetorick taught out of the rule of Plato.... To which poetry would be made subsequent, or indeed rather precedent, as being less suttle and fine, but more simple, sensuous, and passionate.

  John Milton

  Plato, Simple, Poetry

  'Of Education' (1644)

• Rhime being no necessary Adjunct or true Ornament of Poem or good Verse, in longer Works especially, but the Invention of a barbarous Age, to set off wretched matter and lame Meeter...the troublesom and modern bondage of Rimeing.

  John Milton

  Poetry, Age, Ornaments

  "Paradise Lost". The Verse, 1668.

• He who would not be frustrate of his hope to write well hereafter in laudable things ought himself to be a true poem.

  John Milton

  Hope, Writing, Frustration

  'An Apology for Smectymnuus' (1642) introduction, p. 16

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