Adamantine Quotes 

Every word is an adamantine shell which encloses a great explosive force. To discover its meaning you must let it burst inside you like a bomb and in this way liberate the soul which it imprisons.
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Him the Almighty Power Hurled headlong flaming from th'ethereal sky With hideous ruin and combustion down To bottomless perdition, there to dwell In adamantine chains and penal fire.

john milton

— Paradise Lost (published 1667), book 1, lines 44-8 (1665).

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O Winter! bar thine adamantine doors. The north is thinethere hast thou built thy dark Deep-founded habitation. Shake not thy roofs, Nor bend thy pillars with thine iron car.

william blake

— 1783  Poetical Sketches,'To Winter'.

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Truth is the most unbending and uncompliable, the most necessary, firm, immutable, and adamantine thing in the world.

ralph cudworth

— Ch. 5, sct. 3

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And sing to those that hold the vital shears; And turn the adamantine spindle round, On which the fate of gods and men is wound.

john milton

— John Milton, Arcades.

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It ["The Ancient Mariner"] is marvellous in its mastery over that delightfully fortuitous inconsequence that is the adamantine logic of dreamland.

james russell lowell

— James Russell Lowell, Among My Books, Coleridge.

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In adamantine chains shall Death be bound, And Hell's grim tyrant feel th' eternal wound.

Alexander Pope

— Alexander Pope, Messiah, line 47.

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