“One type of paradise that is portrayed for mankind is streams, beautiful nymphs and greeneries. But there is another kind of paradise. ... The warfront was the lost paradise of the human beings, indeed.”
In a 2009 interview
Quoted in "Soleimani, a General Who Became Iran Icon by Targeting US" https://www.nytimes.com/aponline/2020/01/02/world/middleeast/ap-ml-iran-qassem-soleimani.html. The Associated Press
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“A good deal of Paradise Lost strikes one as being almost as mechanical as bricklaying.”
F. R. Leavis
(1895–1978) British literary critic
Revaluation: Tradition and Development in English Poetry (1936; repr. Harmondsworth: Penguin, 1964)
“Paradise will be a kind of library”
Poem of the Gifts ["Poema de los Dones"]
Dreamtigers (1960)
Variant: I have always imagined Paradise as a kind of library.
William R. Alger
(1822–1905) American clergyman and poet
"The Ninth Paradise", p. 223.
Poetry of the Orient, 1865 edition
“Rats in paradise! Rats in paradise!”
Nick Cave
(1957) Australian musician
Song lyrics, Mutiny (1993), Mutiny in Heaven
“The best paradise is the paradise we are exiled from.”
Subhash Kak
(1947) Indian computer scientist
The Secrets of Ishbar (1996)
Henri Barbusse
(1873–1935) French novelist
Light (1919), Ch. XXIII - Face To Face
Context: There is nothing between the paradise dreamed of and the paradise lost. There is nothing, since we always want what we have not got. We hope, and then we regret. We hope for the future, and then we turn to the past, and then we begin slowly and desperately to hope for the past! The two most violent and abiding feelings, hope and regret, both lean upon nothing. To ask, to ask, to have not! Humanity is exactly the same thing as poverty. Happiness has not the time to live; we have not really the time to profit by what we are. Happiness, that thing which never is — and which yet, for one day, is no longer!
“What is there in 'Paradise Lost' to elevate and astonish like Herschel or Somerville?”
Ralph Waldo Emerson
(1803–1882) American philosopher, essayist, and poet
Quoted in Robert D. Richardson, Jr., Emerson, the Mind On Fire (Univ. of Calif Press 1995), p. 124
Aldous Huxley
(1894–1963) English writer
John Rivers in The Genius and the Goddess (1955)
Context: You can't worship a spirit in spirit, unless you do it now. Wallowing in the past may be good literature. As wisdom, it's hopeless. Time Regained is Paradise Lost, and Time Lost is Paradise Regained. Let the dead bury their dead. If you want to live at every moment as it presents itself, you've got to die to every other moment.
“Not one moment when I have not been conscious of being outside Paradise.”
The Trouble With Being Born (1973)