Adamantine Quotes
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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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More Adamantine Quotes
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).
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'.
Truth is the most unbending and uncompliable, the most necessary, firm, immutable, and adamantine thing in the world.
ralph cudworth— Ch. 5, sct. 3
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.
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.
In adamantine chains shall Death be bound, And Hell's grim tyrant feel th' eternal wound.
Alexander Pope— Alexander Pope, Messiah, line 47.
