12-29-2012, 04:47 AM
Milton is one of my favourites as well, though I tend to most adore his sonnets -- that's from Paradise Lost isn't it?
I have terrible trouble picking quotes out of poems as I tend to forget the exact words and just take on the gist of them, but a few stand out. For philosophical sentiments, I find it hard to go past Robert Burns' "A Man's A Man":
Then let us pray that come it may,
(As come it will for a' that,)
That Sense and Worth, o'er a' the earth,
Shall bear the gree, an' a' that.
For a' that, an' a' that,
It's coming yet for a' that,
That Man to Man, the world o'er,
Shall brothers be for a' that.
I have terrible trouble picking quotes out of poems as I tend to forget the exact words and just take on the gist of them, but a few stand out. For philosophical sentiments, I find it hard to go past Robert Burns' "A Man's A Man":
Then let us pray that come it may,
(As come it will for a' that,)
That Sense and Worth, o'er a' the earth,
Shall bear the gree, an' a' that.
For a' that, an' a' that,
It's coming yet for a' that,
That Man to Man, the world o'er,
Shall brothers be for a' that.
It could be worse