Top 19 Helicon's Quotes
#1. From Helicon's harmonious springs A thousand rills their mazy progress take.
Thomas Gray
#2. Compromise is necessary ... so long as you never give up who you are. That isn't compromise; that's spiritual death. You have to remain true to yourself.
Charles De Lint
#3. Clio may be the most austere and chaste of the Muses, but she has been known to come down informally from Mount Helicon in a mood so raffish that there are those who claim to have seen her with her slip showing.
Thornton Willis
#4. Meggie thought this first whisper sounded a little different from one book to another, depending on weather or not she already knew the story it was going to tell her.
Cornelia Funke
#6. Every act I live while I am fully awake can not help but be both prayer and lovemaking.
Oriah Mountain Dreamer
#7. The Helicon of too many poets is not a hill crowned with sunshine and visited by the Muses and the Graces, but an old, mouldering house, full of gloom and haunted by ghosts.
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
#8. May's style was best described as Jem and the Holograms meets Rainbow Brite.
Seanan McGuire
#9. Thank you Jesus you are a stone mover. And you can move any stone away.
Louie Giglio
#10. I always knew that I was an artist. I never expected to be able to make a living.
Lynn Shelton
#11. For me, at least, studying my subjects first and knowing them personally was essential to taking a good picture.
Gisele Freund
#12. Language is made up of names of comparable objects, and that which cannot be compared has no name.
Hazrat Inayat Khan
#13. Whenever there's the experience of a broken heart, there's the experience of fear.
Gary Zukav
#14. He had no idea what was wrong, but he knew something was wrong. It turned out that the heart of the fire had not been in the kitchen but in the basement beneath where the men had stood.
Daniel Kahneman
#15. Wait a second while I take a swig off this bottle: it's my true and only Helicon, my Caballine fount, my sole Enthusiasm. Here, drinking, I deliberate, I reason, I resolve and conclude. After the epilogue I laugh, I write, I compose, I drink. Ennius drinking would write, writing would drink.
Francois Rabelais
#16. Sure there are poets which did never dream
Upon Parnassus, nor did taste the stream
Of Helicon; we therefore may suppose
Those made not poets, but the poets those.
Henry David Thoreau
#17. The trouble with us is that we try to find happiness where it does not exist, in transient, impermanent things; we try to find it in the gratification of desire; we seek it in animal pleasure. Happiness lives in giving, in doing, not in getting, in grasping.
Orison Swett Marden
#18. A few hours later (I think, anyway) there are six other empty beer mugs joining the first one on the table. I watch them look back at me, my eyes half open. I think the one on the far right is judging me.
C.H. Wood
#19. All the Utopias - Brook Farm, Robert Owen's sanctuary of chatter, Upton Sinclair's Helicon Hall - and their regulation end in scandal, feuds, poverty, griminess, disillusion.
Sinclair Lewis