During Prohibition days, when South Carolina was actively advertising the iodine content of its vegetables, the Hell Hole brand of... 'liquid corn' was notorious with its waggish slogan: 'Not a Goiter in a Gallon.'LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Hell is out of fashion--institutional hells at any rate. The populated infernos of the 20th century are more private affairs, the ...gaps between the bars are the sutures of one's own skull.... A valid hell is one from which there is a possibility of redemption, even if this is never achieved, the dungeons of an architecture of grace whose spires point to some kind of heaven. The institutional hells of the present century are reached with one-way tickets, marked Nagasaki and Buchenwald, worlds of terminal horror even more final than the grave.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The reason Milton wrote in fetters when he wrote of Angels & God, and at liberty when of Devils & Hell, is because he was a true P...oet, and of the Devil's party without knowing it.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Seraphs and saints with one great voice Welcomed that soul that knew not fear.... Amazed to find it could rejoice, Hell raised a hoarse, half-human cheer.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
How long she stayed I cannot tell; But when she felt this perfidy,... She marched across the floor of hell; And all the damned stood up to see.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Before the time I did Lysander see, Seemed Athens as a paradise to me.... O then, what graces in my love do dwell, That he hath turned a heaven unto a hell?LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Come, thick night, And pall thee in the dunnest smoke of hell,... That my keen knife see not the wound it makes, Nor heaven peep through the blanket of the dark To cry, "Hold, hold!"LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
But this place is too cold for hell. I'll devil-porter it no further; I had thought to have let in some of all professions that go... the primrose way to th' everlasting bonfire.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »