It is commonly asserted and accepted that Paradise Lost is among the two or three greatest English poems; it may justly be taken as the type of supreme poetic achievement in our literature.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
The only paradise is paradise lost.
Each memorable verse of a true poet has two or three times the written content.
This proves that great lyric poetry can die, be reborn, die again, but will always remain one of the most outstanding creations of the human soul.
I'm not really one for fancy, big words and poetry, and the scriptwriters worked very hard on 'Paradise Lost' to translate it.
Poetry comes from the highest happiness or the deepest sorrow.
Poetry is like making a joke. If you get one word wrong at the end of a joke, you've lost the whole thing.
Our poems will have failed if our readers are not brought by them beyond the poems.
Poetry is not only a set of words which are chosen to relate to each other; it is something which goes much further than that to provide a glimpse of our vision of the world.
Poetry is the experience of liberty. The poet risks himself, chances all on the poem's all with each verse he writes.
Poetry is what gets lost in translation.