Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Poet, Educator
"Every author has the whole past to contend with; all the centuries are upon him. He is compared with Homer, Dante, Shakespeare, Milton."
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Milton
18 quotes on this topic — from poets, philosophers, and thinkers across history.
William Wordsworth
Poet
"Milton, thou should'st be living at this hour."
William Wordsworth
Poet
"Milton, in his hand The thing became a trumpet"
Terry Pratchett
Author
"Neither claimed any responsibility for Milton Keynes, but both reported it as a success."
Robert Browning
Poet, Playwright
"Shakespeare was of us, Milton was of us, Burns, Shelley, were with us. They watch from their graves!"
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