I finally finished Paradise Lost and Paradise Regained, which was replaced by "Tell Me Who I Am." There are some fabulous stories in there, people. Check it out, seriously.
Here's my quotes from this round of Milton's Paradise
PL, Book III
"...if I foreknew
Foreknowledge had no influence on their fault...
Authors to themselves in all
Both what they judge and what they choose; for so
I form'd them free, and free they must remain."
"For neither Man nor Angel can discern
Hypocrisy, the only evil that walks
Invisible, except to God alone."
Book V
"In contemplation* of created things
By steps we may ascend to God."
*contemplation: from Latin "com" and "templum," consecrated space
Book VI
"When Reason hath to deal with force, yet so
Most reason is that Reason overcome."
Book XI
"Their Maker's Image...then
Forsook them, when themselves they vilifi'd
To serv'd...
Disfiguring not God's likeness, but their own."
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The poet that I read from (for 2012: Year of the Poem) was Emily Dickinson.
Here are some of my favorite lines from that reading.
632
"The Brain is just the weight of God--
For--Heft them--Pound for Pound--
And they will differ--if they do--
As Syllable from Sound."
1732
"My life closed twice before its close;
It yet remains to se
If Immortality unveil
A third event to me.
So huge, so hopeless to conceive
As these that twice befell.
Parting is all we konw of heaven,
And all we need of hell."
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Still chugging through the CCC. I really hope I don't have to shelve that.
