ميلتون الأعمى، وشعره المتدلّي حول صدغيه الهادئين، وإلى جانبه شكسبير، حملٌ ثقيل، لو كان الطين يفكّر والعقل وزناً، على من حمل العالم!

“The sightless Milton, with his hair Around his placid temples curled; And Shakespeare at his side,-a freight, If clay could think and mind were weight, For him who bore the world!”William Wordsworth — The Complete Poetical Works of William Wordsworth: Together with a Description of the Country of the Lakes in the North of England, Now First Published with His Works (1837)