English "poet, essayist".
"He was a master epic poetry; Wrote in four languages including "Paradise Lost," 1676, after losing his sight."
For books are not absolutely dead things, but do contain a potency of life in them ; they do preserve as in a vial the purest efficacy and extraction of that living intellect that bred them."
"The mind is its own place, and in itself can make a heaven a hell, a hell a heaven."
"Th'invention all admir'd, and each, how he To be th'inventor miss'd; so easy it seem'd once found, which yet unfound most would have thought impossible."
It is not miserable to be blind; it is miserable to be incapable of enduring blindness.
"Who overcomes By force, hath overcome but half his foe."
