Top 22 Parnassus Quotes
#1. It seems to be expected of every pilgrim up the slopes of the mathematical Parnassus, that he will at some point or other of his journey sit down and invent a definite integral or two towards the increase of the common stock.
James Joseph Sylvester
#2. It is a happy thing that there is no royal road to poetry. The world should know by this time that one cannot reach Parnassus except by flying thither.
Gerard Manley Hopkins
#3. If a man goes up into Parnassus after sunset, why should he not see strange things? The gods still walk there, and a man who would not go carefully in the country of the gods is a fool.
Mary Stewart
#4. I allow no hot-beds in the gardens of Parnassus.
Charles Lamb
#5. If you look at the world with parted lips and a pure heart, and will the good, won't that make a true and beautiful poem? One's heart tells one that it will; and one's heart is wrong. There is no direct road to Parnassus .
Randall Jarrell
#6. Love is a garment
riven in the light
that rises from Parnassus,
showing
the night is over.
Hilda Doolittle
#7. Learning is not easy, but hard; culture is severe. The steps to Parnassus are steep and terribly arduous.
John Jay Chapman
#8. Those ancients who in poetry presented
the golden age, who sang its happy state,
perhaps, in their Parnassus, dreamt this place.
Here, mankind's root was innocent; and here
were every fruit and never-ending spring;
these streams
the nectar of which poets sing.
Dante Alighieri
#9. 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
#11. It is in vain a daring author thinks of attaining to the heights of Parnassus if he does not feel the secret influence of heaven and if his natal star has not formed him to be a poet.
Nicolas Boileau-Despreaux
#12. Finally you begin to make your mistakes on the highest level-let's say the upper slopes of slippery Parnassus-and it's at that point you need coaching.
John Barth
#13. Grub Street turns out good things almost as often as Parnassus. For if a writer is hard up enough, if he's far down enough (down where I have been and am rising from, I am really saying), he can't afford self-doubt and he can't let other people's opinions, even a father's, keep him from writing.
Wallace Stegner
#14. The clamorous owl, that nightly hoots and wonders
At out quaint spirits.
William Shakespeare
#15. Losers quit when they fail. Winners fail until they succeed.
Robert Kiyosaki
#16. He is not, he hopes, a sentimentalist. He tries not to sentimentalize the animals he kills, or to sentimentalize Bev Shaw. He avoids saying to her 'I don't know how you do it,' in order not to have to hear her say in return, 'Someone has to do it.
J.M. Coetzee
#17. Truth is neither in the scripture nor in the words of prophets. It is in your heart, feel it, discover it and expand with it.
Amit Ray
#18. I'm trying my hand at writing. I'm writing a couple of projects for HBO, a half hour comedy and a miniseries.
Charles S. Dutton
#19. Focus on the competition to diminish the time dedicated to internal politics.
James Kerr
#20. Since governments take the right of death over their people, it is not astonishing if the people should sometimes take the right of death over governments.
[On Water]
Guy De Maupassant
#21. HE TEN LEPERS: Handling ingratitude with disapproval-
And Jesus Answer, were there not 10 cleansed but where are 9?
Ikechukwu Joseph
#22. A Christian has no business being satisfied with mediocrity. He's supposed to reach for the stars. Why not? He's not on his own anymore. He has God's help now.
Catherine Marshall
